Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography

Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa Tasiyana D. Javangwe, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Nonhlanhla Dhlamini, University of Swaziland Arthur P.T. Makanda, Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police Murenga Joseph Chikowero, University of Wisconsin, USA Anna Chitando, Zimbabwe Open University Charles Pfukwa, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

• 1. Fictions of Autobiographical Representations: Joshua Nkomo's The Story of My Life ; Maurice Taonezvi Vambe 2. Memory, Gender and Narration: Reconstruction of Subjectivity in Makeba's My Story and Masekela's Still Grazing ; Nonhlanhla Dhlamini 3. Imagining The Nation: Autobiography, Memoir, History or Fiction in Peter Godwin's writing; Muchativugwa Liberty Hove 4. Denomi/Nation: Envisioning Possibilities of Re-Constructing an Alternative Zimbabwe in Muzorewa's Rise Up and Walk ; Tasiyana D. Javangwe 5. Reading Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter; Arthur P.T. Makanda 6. Vortex of Violence: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Peter Godwin's The Fear ; Muchativugwa Liberty Hove 7. 'We Were Little Kings in Rhodesia': Rhodesian Discourse and Representations of Colonial Violence in Kandaya and Let's Don't Go To The Dogs Tonight ; Murenga Joseph Chikowero 8. Women Re-defining Themselves in the Context of HIV and AIDS: Insights from Tendayi Westerhof's Unlucky in Love ; Anna Chitando 9. Historical Metaphors of the Self: Chimurenga Names as Autobiography; Charles Pfukwa

"The contributors all are from southern Africa ably deploy both autobiographical and postcolonial theory in their analyses. Most also include sufficient political/sociological context to enable readers unfamiliar with this history to grasp the key critiques." - CHOICE