- Title
- Literary representations of Zimbabwean migrants’ lives in selected texts
- Creator
- Mpofu, Tarisai
- Description
- It has been nearly two decades since Zimbabwe has been engulfed in both political and economic crises which have had untold hardships to the majority of ordinary people. As the hardships worsened it pushed Zimbabweans to migrate to “greener pastures” as a survival strategy. Due to the sheer numbers of people who left the country, migration became a social phenomenon in the country that even literary writers also explored. It is the purpose of this study to analyse literary reactions to migration in Zimbabwe from the turn of the new millennium to date, with particular reference to selected Zimbabwean fiction in the form of the short story and novel. The dissertation examines how Zimbabwean literature represents life in Zimbabwe in the context of this economic malaise that emerged after the year 2000 and the resultant lives of migrants who left the country as a result of this political and economic crisis. Similar to the majority of African literatures, Zimbabwean literature emerges from specific historical events and this study therefore sought to describe literary representations of people’s responses to the crisis and the life of Zimbabwean migrants in the margins of host communities. This study reveals the intricate relationship between literary responses and the conditions that most migrants found themselves in especially as they fled the country and what obtained in host countries.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Subject
- Human rights -- Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Homelessness in literature
- Subject
- African diaspora in literature
- Type
- Masters theses, text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3402
- Identifier
- vital:43340
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (82 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University, All Rights Reserved, Open Access
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