Introduction: African and Diasporan Poetry

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Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa

Qualifications
  • PhD (Zimbabwe) 
NRF Rating C3 Books Book chapters:
  • 2009. Perspectives on Africanisation of curriculum in Africa. In Mitchell, J.E. & le Roux, A. (Eds). Curriculum issues in higher education: conference proceedings. Pretoria: Unisa Press: 4 
Journal articles
  • 2010. African women in male writing: representations of women in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Devil on the cross. Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies 1(1): 99-113.
  • 2010. Contributions of African literature to the African Renaissance. Imbizo: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 5(2): 259-273.
  • 2010. Elements of the abject and the romantic in the novel: Inyenzi: a story of love and genocide. African Identities 8(4): 351-364.
  • 2010. Zimbabwe’s creative literatures in the interregnum, 1980-2009. African Identities 8(2): 93-116.
  • 2010. Ambiguities of the oral song narrative in Charles Samupindi’s novel, Pawns. Muziki 7(2): 140-147.
  • 2009. Contesting the myth of ‘A people’s war’ in Bruce Moore-King’s White man black war. Journal of Developing Societies 25(1): 107-120.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T & Rwafa, U. Textualising the visual, visualising the text: Hotel Rwanda and An Ordinary Man: the true story behind ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ scrutiny2 14(1): 5-20.
  • 2009. The function of songs in the Shona ritual-myth of Kurova Guva. Muziki 6(1): 112-119.
  • 2009. Fictions of autobiographical representations: Joshua Nkomo’s The story of my life. Journal of Literary Studies: 80-97.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Chennells, A. The power of autobiography in Southern Africa. Journal of Literary Studies 25(1): 118.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Chennells, A. Introduction: The power of autobiography in Southern Africa. Journal of Literary Studies 25(1): 1-7.
  • 2009. Vambe, M. T. & Khan, K. Myths of popular culture. The Open Area Journal 2: 52-58.
  • 2009. South African youth: artistic creativity and development. Commonwealth: Youth and Development 7(2): 73-81.

Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, University of South Africa

Qualifications
  • DLitt (Pretoria) 
Fields of academic interests
  • African literature
  • American literature
  • Poetry  
  • Postcolonialism 
Journal articles
  • 2010. Subverting through myth: Marechera’s use of myth and ritual in ‘Protista’ House of Hunger. Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies 1(1).
  • 2009. Filling the void in our national life: The search for a song that captures the spirit of Rhodesian nationalism. Musiki 6 (2): 154-162.  

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2017-06-01

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Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi, and Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto. 2017. “Introduction: African and Diasporan Poetry”. Journal of Literary Studies 33 (2):78-81. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/11812.

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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2017)

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