Edgar tekere autobiography samples

A REVOLUTIONARY CHARACTER, A DISPENSABLE REBEL?

EDGAR TEKERE’S POLITICAL POINT-SCORING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A ZIMBABWEAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT Jairos Gonye, Thamsanqa Moyo and James Hlongwana* Great Zimbabwe University Abstract In Zimbabwe, autobiographies, particularly political ones, are sites of contestations, compositions, decompositions and recompositions of national narratives.

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In their obsession with the self, they always centre the narrating subjectivity whilst at the same time decentering and recentering others. This means that in this literary gamesmanship, certain political personalities are displaced, peripherised, and debunked in this historical re-imagination.

Tekere in his autobiography, A Life time of Struggle (2007), seeks to impose his political credentials and legitimacy in the national script in the face of what he sees and sti