<P>By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical- Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This study discusses...
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By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical- Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This study discusses a wide range of writing including novels by Coetzee, Gordimer, Head, Hove, and Vera.
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From 'an endless drama of domicile and challenge' to 'a country with land but no habitat'; 1 Possessions: Nationalisms and 'the land' in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988; 2 Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South Africa 1972-1979; 3 Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-Writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002; 4 From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000; Notes; Bibliography; Index