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The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis

The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis

Chikowero, Joseph
Chitando, Anna
Madongonda, Angeline M.

Hardcover

Series: Neil, B02, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,6/1/2015, IP, B, Tp

AnthropologyFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1443881090
ISBN13: 9781443881098
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, one epitomized by the severe shortages and runaway inflation of 2008. While journalistic stories of the 1998-2008 era often privilege the reductive stories of woe, defeat and crushed hopes, this volume explores how survival was still possible in those circumstances. The book offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies, how they weaved new songs and reinterpreted old ones to fight for survival, how social institutions such as churches reinterpreted popular gospel, and how authors, playwrights and dramatists crafted works that acknowledge the unprecedented difficulties and yet find humour, laughter and love in unusual places. This work will appeal to both scholars, who will appreciate the depth of the analysis, and the general reader.

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