White Narratives

The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe

Irikidzayi Manase

 

Synopsis

In White Narratives, Manase engages with this fervent output of texts seeking definition of experiences, conflicts and ambiguities arising from the land invasions. He takes us through his study of texts selected from the memoirs, fictional and non-fictional accounts of white farmers and other displaced white narrators on the post-2000 Zimbabwe land invasions, scrutinising divisions between white and black in terms of both current and historical ideology, society and spatial relationships.

Review

[Manase] examines how the revisionist politics of the Zimbabwean government influenced the politics of identities and race categories during the period 2000-2008, and posits some solutions to the contestations for land and belonging. - Bookslive

Author

Irikidzayi Manase teaches in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus in South Africa.