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Political Humour and Zimbabwean Identity on Social Media Platforms
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2024
Zusammenfassung
Political Humour and Zimbabwean Identity on Social Media Platforms by Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga studies Zimbabwean digital political communication and investigates how political satire constructs, critiques, contests, mediates, and negotiates national identity. Focusing on Bustop and Magamba TV, two YouTube channels that specialise in satiric political skits, this book demonstrates what it means to be a Zimbabwean, and who or what authorises such belonging. Msimanga traces contestations of Zimbabwe’s national identity since independence in 1980, refracted by the Gukurahundi genocide, questioning national sovereignty and national security, the fast-track land reform programme, and human rights abuses perpetrated by the incumbent ZANU-PF government. This book provides a conceptual framework that deploys a context-sensitive understanding of satire relevant to the global south and to Zimbabwe. Msimanga concludes that Magamba and Bustop TV are successful in utilising opportunities inherent in the inflection point and crossroads facing Zimbabwe to open and amplify new spaces for contesting, negotiating, and critiquing what it means to belong to the national project.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Copyrightjahr
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-4328-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4329-0
Verlag
Lexington, Lanham
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
172
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Setting the Scene: Gukurahundi, Mugabeism and Patriotic History Kein Zugriff
Magamba TV Kein Zugriff
Bustop TV Kein Zugriff
Structure of the Book Kein Zugriff
Notes Kein Zugriff
Competing ‘Journalisms’ and the Construction of National Identity in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
Social Media Activism and Dissidence in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
Performative Syncretism and Syncretic Performativity: Satura, Parody and the Mediation of Politics Kein Zugriff
Political Satire and Politics in Africa: An Overview Kein Zugriff
Political Satire in Zimbabwe: Going against the Grain? Kein Zugriff
Notes Kein Zugriff
First Intercalation: Cultural Systems and Satire in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
Second Intercalation: Satire and Dissent/Dissidence Kein Zugriff
Third Intercalation: Satire, Humour, ‘Potholes’ and Sovereign Power in the PostColony Kein Zugriff
Fourth Intercalation: Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque, Laughter, Colloquialisms, Heteroglossia, Inversions and Reversals Kein Zugriff
Notes Kein Zugriff
Police and Army Brutality against Political Activists and Citizens Kein Zugriff
Electoral Violence and Propaganda in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
‘Kungoshaika’? Abductions of Political Activists in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
Notes Kein Zugriff
Questioning the Legitimacy of ZANU-PF’s New Dispensation Kein Zugriff
Hero or Villain? Laughing at Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s Cyberspace Kein Zugriff
Abuse of Political Office and Corruption in Zimbabwe Kein Zugriff
Failed Pungwe’s? Lack of Service Delivery, Empty Promises and the Failure of the Land Reform Programme Kein Zugriff
