Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life

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Main Authors: Gwarinda Machineripi, Khatija Khan
Other Authors: Department of Film and Theatre Arts,Midlands State University
Format: research article
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd 2023
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Online Access:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5507
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2015.1107994
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spelling ir-11408-55072023-03-29T07:18:47Z Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life Gwarinda Machineripi Khatija Khan Department of Film and Theatre Arts,Midlands State University University of South Africa chimurenga military heroism Joshua Nkomo psychoanalysis Shona Edgar Tekere ZANU ZAPU Abstract The aim of this article is to use the issues of legitimacy and heroic identities as a focus to demonstrate the inextricability of the form and content of a text. First, the article briefly outlines Joshua Nkomo's biography, then it examines the self-narration in his memoir, The story of my life (2001). To a lesser extent and for comparative purposes, Edgar Tekere's, A lifetime of struggle (2007) is discussed. Both writers were instrumental in building an independent Africa. In this article, the interplay between the imagination of the public and the imagination of the narrators, resulting in complicity with or rejection of the masculine identity created in the narration, is interrogated. Secondly, the workings and role of memory in life narratives are analysed. Characterisation in autobiography is also examined by interrogating motives in political action and self-report, setting, relationships, embodiment, genealogy and heredity, socio- economic background and historical forces, educational background, individual will and self-assertion. 10 2 190 203 2023-03-29T07:18:46Z 2023-03-29T07:18:46Z 2015-12-20 research article https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5507 https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2015.1107994 en International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 1753-7274 open Taylor and Francis Ltd
spellingShingle chimurenga
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Edgar Tekere
ZANU
ZAPU
Gwarinda Machineripi
Khatija Khan
Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title_full Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title_fullStr Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title_full_unstemmed Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title_short Constructing Nationalist Masculine Identities: Heroism and Legitimacy in Joshua Nkomo's The Story of my Life
title_sort constructing nationalist masculine identities: heroism and legitimacy in joshua nkomo's the story of my life
topic chimurenga
military heroism
Joshua Nkomo
psychoanalysis
Shona
Edgar Tekere
ZANU
ZAPU
url https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5507
https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2015.1107994
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