Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean war fiction writers are fond of depicting harm that is suffered by individuals and some groups of individuals in the Zimbabwean war of liberation. The harm is in most cases in three broad categories of physical, sexual and psychological. The writers in questio...

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Main Author: Charamba, Tyanai
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Language:English
Published: Global Journals 2022
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Online Access:https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3606/3495
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5139
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description Zimbabwean war fiction writers are fond of depicting harm that is suffered by individuals and some groups of individuals in the Zimbabwean war of liberation. The harm is in most cases in three broad categories of physical, sexual and psychological. The writers in question, especially those that treat the war of liberation and its aftermath in their wor ks, propose different approaches to dealing with the harm which different individuals and groups of individuals suffered during the liberation struggle. It is with such realization that, this article selects three works of fiction, to discuss how writers of war fiction treat the bipartite relationship of harm and healing during and after the war of liberation in Zimbabwe. The chapter makes a critical appreciation of the harm which different characters in the war fiction suffer during the war and of the appr oaches which fiction writers propose for dealing with the harm after the war. What fiction writers propose as the panacea to the harm which their characters suffer during the war is critiqued from an understanding of both the events in the history of post - independence Zimbabwe and of the demands of Shona traditional culture which pertain to conflict management and conflict resolution.
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spelling ir-11408-51392022-08-17T07:52:26Z Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe Charamba, Tyanai Dichotomy of Harm Healing War Fiction Shona Language - Communal Zimbabwe Zimbabwean war fiction writers are fond of depicting harm that is suffered by individuals and some groups of individuals in the Zimbabwean war of liberation. The harm is in most cases in three broad categories of physical, sexual and psychological. The writers in question, especially those that treat the war of liberation and its aftermath in their wor ks, propose different approaches to dealing with the harm which different individuals and groups of individuals suffered during the liberation struggle. It is with such realization that, this article selects three works of fiction, to discuss how writers of war fiction treat the bipartite relationship of harm and healing during and after the war of liberation in Zimbabwe. The chapter makes a critical appreciation of the harm which different characters in the war fiction suffer during the war and of the appr oaches which fiction writers propose for dealing with the harm after the war. What fiction writers propose as the panacea to the harm which their characters suffer during the war is critiqued from an understanding of both the events in the history of post - independence Zimbabwe and of the demands of Shona traditional culture which pertain to conflict management and conflict resolution. 2022-08-17T07:41:36Z 2022-08-17T07:41:36Z 2021 Article 2249 - 460x 0975 - 587X https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3606/3495 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5139 en Global Journal of Social Science Research;Vol. 21, No 3;Pages 19 - 33 open Global Journals
spellingShingle Dichotomy of Harm
Healing
War Fiction
Shona Language - Communal
Zimbabwe
Charamba, Tyanai
Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title_full Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title_short Critical Appreciation of the Dichotomy of Harm and Healing in Selected War Fiction in Shona Language - Communal and Everyday Aspects of Healing in Zimbabwe
title_sort critical appreciation of the dichotomy of harm and healing in selected war fiction in shona language - communal and everyday aspects of healing in zimbabwe
topic Dichotomy of Harm
Healing
War Fiction
Shona Language - Communal
Zimbabwe
url https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3606/3495
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