Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism : Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe by James Muzondidya

At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into `patriots' and `sell-outs' and dividing academics into groups such as `regime intellectuals', left-nationalists, left-internationalists, `nativists' and `neo-liberals'. Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers a new analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally.
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