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Perspectives From the Past, Technology of the Present and the Future: A Critical Appreciation of the Oral Aesthetic in Mapenzi (1999) and Masango Mavi (1998)
(2006-09-12)
The paper critically analyses the contrastive use of Shona oral art forms in
Chiwome’s Masango Mavi and Mabasa’s Mapenzi. It proceeds from realisation that
the two writers identify with Shona people’s oral experiences, ...
A Critical Re-Engagement With Stultifying Gender Binaries in HIV and AIDS Related Shona Novelistic Discourses.
(2006-09-12)
The paper is an exposition and a critique of selected novelistic voices in Shona
whose subject matter also includes HIV/AIDS. Yet, the informing philosophy on
Aids in the novels is gender difference as the modus operandi ...
An Afro-centred View of HIV/AIDS as a Long Term European Project in Africa
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2006)
Aids is an inverted colonialism. For this reason, the paper discusses
HIV/AIDS as a new technology of African domination and exploitation
in the 21st century and beyond. It transcends the mere understanding of
HIV/AIDS ...
Mass Neurosis, Entrapment, Closure and the Race’s Race of Life in Masango Mavi(1998) and Mapenzi (1999).
(2006-09-12)
This paper critically analyses the projection of the African image and the condition
of the African race as depicted in Emmanuel Chiwome’s Masango Mavi (1998), and
Ignatius Mabasa’s Mapenzi (1999) in the broad context ...
Victimhood in Mungoshi's Shona Novels: A Critical Study.
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2005)
The paper is a deliberate problematisation of the study of Mungoshi’s Shona
literature with a view to initiate new critical perspectives absent in current Shona
critical scholarship. We problematise the study of the ...