"A country with land but no habitat" : travel and belonging in colonial southern Rhodesia and post-colonial Zimbabwe
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- THE ABSTRACT Throughout Zimbabwe's history the political imagination has based belonging to the country on the idea of land ownership and settlement. While the political imagination has been content to simply tie belonging to the land. The creative-imagination, on the other hand, has always, intentionally or not, undermined such a simple notion of belonging by focusing on movement and travel. My dissertation, therefore, mainly charts out literary efforts to use travel to problematize the over-simplified political sense of "national" belonging. Authors of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean works of fiction and non-fiction alike, reveal ways that travel makes all belonging unsettled; I argue that this unsettledness can be productive in making us re-think and interrogate "Zimbabwean" and, by extension, "African" identity in a post-colonial, post-essentialist, and post-nativist era. Applying New Diaspora Theory to the unlikely context of an African country generates both new ways to understand African nationalism and productive transformations in the theory itself.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Primary advisor | Majumdar, Saikat |
| Thesis advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Majumdar, Saikat |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Thesis advisor | Lunsford, Andrea A, 1942- |
| Advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Advisor | Lunsford, Andrea A, 1942- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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