The Contest for Space in Zimbabwean Literature. The case of the novel, The Uncertainty of Hope
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2021-06
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Abstract
The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) by Valerie Tagwira is a novel that offers profound insights
into the condition of Zimbabweans during a time of crisis. Muchemwa (2013:128) argues that
“Tagwira‘s novel is often read in one of two ways: either as an HIV/AIDS novel focusing on
the infection risks faced by women in a patriarchal culture that encourages men to have unsafe
sex with multiple partners or as a Murambatsvina novel that opens a unique fictional window
onto the massive displacement of people by a black postcolonial government”.
The relatively few scholars that have opined on the novel have applied an HIV/AIDS
reading.
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CITATION: Dube, N. (2021). The Contest for Space in Zimbabwean Literature. The case of the novel, The
Uncertainty of Hope. Academia Letters, Article 1076.
doi.10.20935/AL1076.
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Keywords
Contest for Space, Zimbabwean Literature, Uncertainty of Hope, Novel
Citation
Dube, N. (2021). The Contest for Space in Zimbabwean Literature. The case of the novel, The
Uncertainty of Hope. Academia Letters, Article 1076. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1076.