TY - BOOK AU - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni AU - James Muzondidya PY - 2011 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1662-9116 SN - 9783035301076 TI - Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism T2 - Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe DO - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0107-6 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043876 N2 - 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. KW - Politics, Zimbabwe, nationalism LA - English ER -