Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle

This book provides a timely reconceptualization of Zimbabwe's anti-colonial liberation struggle, resisting simple binaries in favour of more nuanced, critical analysis. It will be of interest to researchers of African history, politics, and postcolonial studies.

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Munyaradzi Nyakudya is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Zimbabwe, and Editorial Board Member of the History in Africa journal.

Wesley Mwatwara is Senior Lecturer in History, Department of Arts, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

Joseph Mujere is Lecturer in History at the University of York, and a researcher in the Society, Work and Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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This book provides a timely reconceptualization of Zimbabwe's anti-colonial liberation struggle, resisting simple binaries in favour of more nuanced, critical analysis. It will be of interest to researchers of African history, politics, and postcolonial studies.

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INTRODUCTION PART ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND LITERARY PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER ONE: Reconsidering Conceptual Issues Pertaining to Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle: A Case Study of the Diwa Community in North Eastern Zimbabwe Joseph Jakarasi and Munyaradzi Nyakudya CHAPTER TWO: The Literary Legitimation of Zimbabwe's Sellout Discourse Tanaka Chidora and Sheunesu Mandizvidza CHAPTER THREE: Heroes or victims? An Exegesis of the Battlefront Experiences of Guerrillas in Selected Zimbabwean Liberation War Novels Itai Muwati PART TWO: CONSTRUCTION OF SELLOUT IDENTITIES CHAPTER FOUR: African Newspapers, Inter-Racial Politics and Nascent Nationalism: The Construction of a 'Sellout' Identity in African Nationalist Politics in Rhodesia, 1953-1962 Sylvester Dombo, Joseph Mujere and Wesley Mwatwara CHAPTER FIVE: Alternative Memories of the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe: Some Perspectives from Rengwe Ivan Marowa CHAPTER SIX: Narratives of ZIPRA Clashes with ZANLA: Rethinking the Construction of Sellout Identities during Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle, 1974-1979 Takawira Chatambudza CHAPTER SEVEN: Honour, Patriotic Loyalty and Treachery in Zimbabwe's Land Reform Debate: A Classical History Perspective Obert Bernard Mlambo and Clive Tendai Zimunya CHAPTER EIGHT: Malawian Encounters with the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle and Resultant Identities, 1966 to 1979 Anusa Daimon PART THREE: GENDERED PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER NINE: District Assistants, Guerrillas and Teenage Girls in Protected Villages During Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle Ishmael Mazambani CHAPTER TEN: "Huge Impact, Little Recognition": Rethinking Women, War and Food Security in Umtali District, Rhodesia, 1975-1980 Bernard Kusena CHAPTER ELEVEN: White Women and African Nationalism in Colonial Zimbabwe Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Pius Nyambara BIBLIOGRAPHY