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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460515903321

Titolo

The art of survival : depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in crisis / / edited by Anna Chitando, Joseph Chikowero and Angeline M. Madongonda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8669-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

820.996891

Soggetti

Zimbabwean literature (English) - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Zimbabwe Politics and government 1980-

Zimbabwe History 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

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 surviva