Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names
This paper examines the role of Zimbabwean (Shona) women in the naming of children in the patriarchal Shona society. The corpus of two thousand Shona personal/given names under review was gathered from Zimbabwe's seven predominantly Shona-speaking provinces. The discussion closely examines fift...
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| description | This paper examines the role of Zimbabwean (Shona) women in the naming of children in the patriarchal Shona society. The corpus of two thousand Shona personal/given names under review was gathered from Zimbabwe's seven predominantly Shona-speaking provinces. The discussion closely examines fifty-two personal names. It emerges that Zimbabwean (Shona) women are innovative as they manage to devise personal names that denotatively and connotatively put across their wishes, grievances, experiences, and preferences in acceptable and non-confrontational ways. The use of value-laden, palimpsest and emblematic-dialoguing personal names is a restrained strategy that ensures tranquility in the society. As a result, the name bearers become moving emblems of the frozen experiences and hopes of their mothers who might have directly or indirectly given the resultant name. In addition, a deconstructionist theory is promulgated as one of the means to get at the deeper meanings of the given names. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-42422022-06-27T13:49:06Z Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names Makondo, Livingstone Ethnicity Zimbabwean Shona women This paper examines the role of Zimbabwean (Shona) women in the naming of children in the patriarchal Shona society. The corpus of two thousand Shona personal/given names under review was gathered from Zimbabwe's seven predominantly Shona-speaking provinces. The discussion closely examines fifty-two personal names. It emerges that Zimbabwean (Shona) women are innovative as they manage to devise personal names that denotatively and connotatively put across their wishes, grievances, experiences, and preferences in acceptable and non-confrontational ways. The use of value-laden, palimpsest and emblematic-dialoguing personal names is a restrained strategy that ensures tranquility in the society. As a result, the name bearers become moving emblems of the frozen experiences and hopes of their mothers who might have directly or indirectly given the resultant name. In addition, a deconstructionist theory is promulgated as one of the means to get at the deeper meanings of the given names. 2021-05-24T11:16:11Z 2021-05-24T11:16:11Z 2008 Article 0027-7738 1756-2279 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/175622708X282893 https://doi.org/10.1179/175622708X282893 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4242 en Names: A Journal of Onomastics;Vol. 56; No. 1: p. 10-18 open Routledge |
| spellingShingle | Ethnicity Zimbabwean Shona women Makondo, Livingstone Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title | Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title_full | Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title_fullStr | Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title_short | Ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing Shona personal names |
| title_sort | ethnicity and matriarchal protest: a case of dialoguing shona personal names |
| topic | Ethnicity Zimbabwean Shona women |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/175622708X282893 https://doi.org/10.1179/175622708X282893 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4242 |
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