Panashe Chigumadzi

What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the true spirit of a nation?In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chiumurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from over thirty years of Robert Mugabe's rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the 'coup that was not a coup', the telling of history and manipulation of time, and the ancestral spirits of two women - her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation.

These Bones Will Rise Again

Sweet Medicine takes place in Harare at the height of Zimbabwe's economic woes in 2008. Tsitsi, a young woman, raised by her strict, devout Catholic mother, believes that hard work, prayer and an education will ensure a prosperous and happy future. She does well at her mission boarding school, and goes on to obtain a scholarship to attend university, but the change in the economic situation in Zimbabwe destroys the old system where hard work and a degree guaranteed a good life. Out of university, Tsitsi finds herself in a position much lower than she had set her sights on, working as a clerk in the office of the local politician, Zvobgo. With a salary that barely provides her a means to survive, she finds herself increasingly compromising her Christian values to negotiate ways to get ahead -- Publisher's website.

Sweet Medicine

Mithu Sanyal

Azhari Aiyub

Javirroyo

Salvador Peña Martín

Cristina Judar

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

Miren Agur Meabe

Laura Emilia Pacheco

Nesrine Khoury

Uxue Alberdi

harriet c. brown

Inmaculada C. Pérez Parra

Claudia Cabrera

Gemma Deza Guil

Relatos lumbung

Sisonke Msimang

Zukiswa Wanner

Zoë Wicomb

Yewande Omotoso

Barbara Boswell

Pumla Dineo Gqola

Desiree Lewis

Gabeba Baderoon

Grace A. Musila

Zethu Matebeni

Yvette Abrahams

gertrude fester-wicomb

Mary Hames

jackï job

Ingrid Masondo

Patricia McFadden

Danai S. Mupotsa

Leigh-Ann Naidoo

Fatima Seedat

Sa’diyya Shaikh

The first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imaginative forms can feminist activism take? Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders. Radical polemic sits side by side with personal essays, and critical theory coexists with rich and stirring life histories. By including writings by Patricia McFadden, Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner, Yewande Omotoso, Zoë Wicomb and Pumla Dineo Gqola alongside emerging thinkers, activists and creative practitioners, the collection demonstrates a dazzling range of feminist voices. The writers in these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of Blackness, sexuality, girlhood, history, divinity, and other themes. Surfacing is indispensable to anyone interested in feminism from Africa which, the contributors show, is in vivid and challenging conversations with the rest of the world.

On being black and feminist in South Africa

Surfacing

Sete escritores, sete países, sete olhares sobre um tema universal Descubra lumbung, palavra indonésia para um celeiro de arroz onde o excedente da colheita é armazenado para proveito comum, mas que, nesta coleção de contos, simboliza trabalho coletivo, esforço conjunto. Aqui, lumbung também é tequio, auzolan, mutirão, ubuntu. E é através dessa mistura de vozes e culturas que este livro celebra a diversidade e o senso de que vivemos em comunidade. Este livro é um projeto coletivo. lumbung: contos de mutirão é um esforço de editoras de diferentes países que nasce do documenta fifteen, evento artístico alemão que, na sua edição de 2022, é dirigido pelo coletivo artístico ruangrupa, da Indonésia. Nele, lumbung – palavra indonésia que se refere a um celeiro de arroz comunal – é não só o tema, mas o conceito estruturante que deve nortear sua organização. Daí surge a ideia de diferentes editoras criarem, conjuntamente, uma publicação que fale de coletividade nas suas próprias culturas. São contatadas e integram o projeto, então, com coordenação da consonni, uma editora espanhola, a alemã Hatje Cantz, a mexicana Almadía, a basca Txalaparta, a árabe Al-Mutawassit, a indonésia Marjin Kiri, a nigeriana Cassava Republic Press e a brasileira Dublinense. Para cada língua, cria-se uma abordagem literária singular sobre o tema proposto: Mithu Sanyal, em alemão, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, em espanhol, Uxue Alberdi, em euskera, Nesrine Khoury, em árabe, Azhari Aiyub, em indonésio, Panashe Chigumadzi, em inglês, e Cristina Judar, em português. O conjunto dos textos traduzidos – uma ação também ela coletiva, de troca e diálogo entre dezenas de tradutores, editores e revisores – é preparado simultaneamente por todas as editoras, que ficam também responsáveis por publicá-lo todas no mesmo momento em seus países. Tem-se, assim, esta obra única e múltipla, que, em diferentes línguas, com projetos gráficos distintos, em variados cantos do mundo e encontrando diferentes leitores em contextos específicos, torna-se um exemplo concreto e vivo daquilo que se pretende retratar nas páginas deste livro.

contos de mutirão

lumbung

What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the spirit of a nation? In November, 2017, the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from more than 30 years of Robert Mugabe's rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir, and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the "coup that was not a coup," the telling of history and manipulation of time and the ancestral spirts of two women—her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation.

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