Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.

This article explores how the life narratives of Ian Douglas Smith, Bitter harvest the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath (1997), and Peter Godwin, Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa (1996), construct identities of self and the Rhodesian nation through a narrative discourse that seeks to evacuate...

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Main Author: Javangwe, Tasiyana D.
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Language:English
Published: Unisa Press 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1346
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description This article explores how the life narratives of Ian Douglas Smith, Bitter harvest the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath (1997), and Peter Godwin, Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa (1996), construct identities of self and the Rhodesian nation through a narrative discourse that seeks to evacuate the Rhodesian cultural space of the perceived others. The article also seeks to argue that these narratives strive to 'people' the evacuated spaces not only physically, but culturally with notions, ideologies and social values of the self and the dominant group to which they belong. In the process, the two narratives are ironically depicted as self-damaging because they promote the exclusion instead of the inclusion of the majority of African people in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the process of defining the self and the Rhodesian nation.
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spelling ir-11408-13462022-06-27T13:49:06Z Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa. Javangwe, Tasiyana D. Cultural space, Ian Smith, nation, Rhodesia, self. This article explores how the life narratives of Ian Douglas Smith, Bitter harvest the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath (1997), and Peter Godwin, Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa (1996), construct identities of self and the Rhodesian nation through a narrative discourse that seeks to evacuate the Rhodesian cultural space of the perceived others. The article also seeks to argue that these narratives strive to 'people' the evacuated spaces not only physically, but culturally with notions, ideologies and social values of the self and the dominant group to which they belong. In the process, the two narratives are ironically depicted as self-damaging because they promote the exclusion instead of the inclusion of the majority of African people in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the process of defining the self and the Rhodesian nation. 2016-05-17T08:56:49Z 2016-05-17T08:56:49Z 2011 Article 2078-9785 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1346 en Imbizo- International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies;Vol.2, No.I; p.103-121. open Unisa Press
spellingShingle Cultural space, Ian Smith, nation, Rhodesia, self.
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Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title_full Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title_fullStr Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title_full_unstemmed Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title_short Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa — a white boy in Africa.
title_sort discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self-identity and nation in ian douglas smith's bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and peter godwin's mukiwa — a white boy in africa.
topic Cultural space, Ian Smith, nation, Rhodesia, self.
url http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1346
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