“…Two theoretical frameworks have been used, namely Black Marxism and Connell’s masculinity theory. Male writers’ portrayal of black male characters has been analysed using both Black Marxism and Connell’s (1995) theory of masculinity. …”
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“…It also looks at the early academic interests in oral traditions roused by anthropological research and how oral traditions came to be the focus of academic debate within successive theoretical paradigms from the nationalist discourses of the 1960s right through the various versions of Marxism. This was the point when oral traditions had become synonymous with pre-colonial history so that by the close of the 1970s there were more people working on pre-colonial topics in Zimbabwe than any other, a development that contrasts sharply with the apparent dearth in actual research on this period in the following two decades.…”
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“…Reading Marechera’s work encourages one to look again at the political philosophy of anarchism. Like Marxism, against which it was conceived, anarchism represents one of those liberatory discourses that were in one way or another linked with the Enlightenment. …”
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“…The combined theories of realism, liberalism, cognitivism, constructivism, marxism and regionalism reflected in one way or the other the behaviour pattern of Zimbabwe in the international system. …”
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