Chapter Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From 'an endless drama of domicile and challenge' to 'a country with land but no habitat' -- chapter 1 Possessions: Nationalisms and 'the land' in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988 -- chapter 2 Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South Africa 1972-1979 -- chapter 3 Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-Writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002 -- chapter 4 From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index
Notes
James Graham isa visiting lecturer at Middlesex University
