Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa

James Graham is a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University.

• 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’Chapter One: Possessions: Nationalisms and ‘the land’ in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988Chapter Two: Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South African Fiction 1969-1979Chapter Three: Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002Chapter Four: From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000Notes Bibliography Index

"A compelling comparative study of nationalism which goes beyond our conventional understanding of it as a derivative discourse...one of the first to draw attention to the themes common to Zimbabwe and South Africa." –James Ogude, Wits University, Scrutiny2"Elegantly composed and theoretically sound...The key strength of Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa is its nonhierarchical comparativism: that the volume is not South Africa-centred is an achievement in itself; furthermore, the cross-border, cross-historical compositional alternation enables innovative readings of both contexts." –Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, Journal of Southern Africa Studies