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The Art of Survival : Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis by Anna Chitando; Joseph Chikowero; Angeline M. Madongonda is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, one epitomized by the severe shortages and runaway inflation of 2008. While journalistic stories of the 1998–2008 era often privilege the reductive stories of woe, defeat and crushed hopes, this volume explores how survival was still possible in those circumstances. The book offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies, how they weaved new songs and reinterpreted old ones to fight for survival, how social institutions such as churches reinterpreted popular gospel, and how authors, playwrights and dramatists crafted works that acknowledge the unprecedented difficulties and yet find humour, laughter and love in unusual places. This work will appeal to both scholars, who will appreciate the depth of the analysis, and the general reader.

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Author

Anna Chitando; Joseph Chikowero; Angeline M. Madongonda

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443881098

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Political Science