Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe

摘要

Since the political implosion of Zimbabwe in the 2000s there has been a rush of texts adding to the existing genre of white writing in Southern Africa. These texts have taken the form of biographies, novels, poems and political commentary, and have varied in quality and depth. They have provided a range of views from the insightful to pious protestations of colonial nostalgia thinly disguised as righteous responses to majoritarian repression.