Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

1. "This book uses critical textual analysis and postcolonial theory to analyze cultural texts of resistance in contemporary Zimbabwe"--

Subject

1. Mass media > Political aspects > Zimbabwe
2. Social conflict in mass media
3. Protest movements in mass media
4. Government, Resistance to > Zimbabwe
5. Government, Resistance to
6. Mass media > Political aspects
7. Zimbabwe

Contents

1. Resistance and the Zimbabwean Crisis: Music, Cartoons, Memes and Media -- Memetic Resistance from Within and Without: Political Dimensions of the Zvinhu Zviri Kufaya Memes in Zimbabwe -- Saying it Without Saying it: Tony Namate's Subversive Cartoons of the Zimbabwean Crisis -- Cultural Idioms of Resistance in Thomas Mapfumo's and Oliver Mtukudzi's Songs of the Post-2000 Period -- New Musical Voices of Resistance in Post-2000 Zimbabwe: Hosiah Chipanga and Winky D -- Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the "New Zimbabwe": Facebooking Dissent in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe -- Concluding Remarks: Cultures of Resistance in Post-2000 Zimbabwe.

Call number

1. Sc E 22-785

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Makombe, Rodwell, author.

Title

1. Cultural texts of resistance in Zimbabwe : music, memes and media / Rodwell Makombe.

Publisher

1. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2021020676

ISBN

1. 9781538150917 hardcover
2. 1538150913 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc E 22-785