LEADER 05084nam 22006255 450 001 9910999782503321 005 20250420130205.0 010 $a3-031-87433-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-87433-8 035 $a(CKB)38537960800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-87433-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32015000 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32015000 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938537960800041 100 $a20250420d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aComedy and Satire in Zimbabwe $eThe Poetics and Politics of Resistance After Mugabe /$fby Rodwell Makombe 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 257 p. 19 illus., 18 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Comedy,$x2731-4340 311 08$a3-031-87432-3 327 $a -- Chapter 1: Comedy, politics, and comic aesthetics in post-coup Zimbabwe -- Chapter 2: Theorising resistance from the margins in Zimbabwe: nation, narration, and comic poetics -- Chapter 3: Change without change: reading the enduring ghost of Mugabeism in Kapfupi?s and Marabha?s comedies of the New Dispensation -- Chapter 4: On postcoloniality of the everyday in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: comic satire and humour in selected comedies by Sabhuku Vharazipi -- Chapter 5: Platformed satire and the politics of ?kutonga? on President Mnangagwa?s Facebook Page -- Chapter 6: EDism, EDiocy and the performance of illegitimacy in the Second Republic: the case of Doc Vikela?s online stand-up comedies -- Chapter 7: The comic and the satirical in Zimbabwean electoral politics of the New Dispensation: ZimDaily cartoons and the 2023 harmonised elections -- Chapter 8: Subversive comedies and comic texts in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: towards a postcolonial comic poetics. 330 $aThe book is about comedy, the nation, and resistance in Zimbabwe, following the fall of Robert Mugabe in 2017. It explores how satiric comedies and comic texts in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe contest hegemonic narratives of the nation and authorise alternative narratives from the margins. Drawing on postcolonial theories of the nation, it analyses subversive comedies and social media texts that contest official political narratives in Zimbabwe, including the comedies of four Zimbabwean comedians?Kapfupi and Marabha, Doc Vikela, and Sabhuku Vharazipi?as well as social media texts on President Mnangagwa?s Facebook Page and cartoons published by the Zimbabwean newspaper ZimDaily. Primarily found via social media platforms (Facebook and Youtube), these texts centre alternative views and narratives of ordinary citizens, contesting established truths and providing a counter-narration to official hegemonic discourses of the nation. Where existing scholarship on post-Mugabe politics in Zimbabwe focuses on issues such as the coup, militarisation, and discourses of "newness", little attention has been paid to the forms of resistance used in everyday discourse by Zimbabweans, and particularly via satire and comedy. These comic texts, shared by comedians and normal citizens on social media, can provide a useful alternative perspective to make sense of the politics and political performances that characterize the new political dispensation after Mugabe. Rodwell Makombe is Professor in the Department of English at the North-West University, South Africa. He is a previous fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP), the University of Michigan Presidential Scholars Fellowship (UMAPS), and the British Academy; he has also been awarded the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2024-2026) with the University of Bonn in Germany. His research focuses on postcolonial/decolonial literary studies, social media, and crisis literature. He is the author of Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe: Music, Memes, Media (2021) and co-author of Coloniality of Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures (2023). 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Comedy,$x2731-4340 606 $aComedy 606 $aMotion pictures$zAfrica 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$xInfluence on mass media 606 $aComedy Studies 606 $aAfrican Film and TV 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aComics Studies 615 0$aComedy. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xInfluence on mass media. 615 14$aComedy Studies. 615 24$aAfrican Film and TV. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aComics Studies. 676 $a306 676 $a792.23 700 $aMakombe$b Rodwell$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01817315 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910999782503321 996 $aComedy and Satire in Zimbabwe$94374994 997 $aUNINA