Description
Product ID: | 9783039119769 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CH |
Series: | Nationalisms Across the Globe |
Title: | Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism |
Subtitle: | Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe |
Authors: | Author: James Muzondidya, Tomasz Kamusella, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni |
Page Count: | 424 |
Subjects: | African history, African history, Colonialism and imperialism, Society and culture: general, Political science and theory, Political structure and processes, Colonialism & imperialism, Society & culture: general, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes |
Description: | Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers an analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally. At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into ‘patriots’ and ‘sell-outs’ and dividing academics into groups such as ‘regime intellectuals’, left-nationalists, left-internationalists, ‘nativists’ and ‘neo-liberals’. Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers a new analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally. |
Imprint Name: | Verlag Peter Lang |
Publisher Name: | Verlag Peter Lang |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-01-05 |