Political Humour and Zimbabwean Identity on Social Media Platforms

Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga

doi:10.5771/9781666943290

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4328-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4329-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 172
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
1. Setting the Scene: Gukurahundi, Mugabeism and Patriotic History No access
2. Magamba TV No access
3. Bustop TV No access
4. Structure of the Book No access
5. Notes No access
1. Competing ‘Journalisms’ and the Construction of National Identity in Zimbabwe No access
2. Social Media Activism and Dissidence in Zimbabwe No access
3. Performative Syncretism and Syncretic Performativity: Satura, Parody and the Mediation of Politics No access
4. Political Satire and Politics in Africa: An Overview No access
5. Political Satire in Zimbabwe: Going against the Grain? No access
6. Notes No access
1. First Intercalation: Cultural Systems and Satire in Zimbabwe No access
2. Second Intercalation: Satire and Dissent/Dissidence No access
3. Third Intercalation: Satire, Humour, ‘Potholes’ and Sovereign Power in the PostColony No access
4. Fourth Intercalation: Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque, Laughter, Colloquialisms, Heteroglossia, Inversions and Reversals No access
5. Notes No access
1. Police and Army Brutality against Political Activists and Citizens No access
2. Electoral Violence and Propaganda in Zimbabwe No access
3. ‘Kungoshaika’? Abductions of Political Activists in Zimbabwe No access
4. Notes No access
1. Questioning the Legitimacy of ZANU-PF’s New Dispensation No access
2. Hero or Villain? Laughing at Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s Cyberspace No access
3. Abuse of Political Office and Corruption in Zimbabwe No access
4. Failed Pungwe’s? Lack of Service Delivery, Empty Promises and the Failure of the Land Reform Programme No access
5. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 147 - 150
References No access Pages 151 - 168
Index No access Pages 169 - 170
About the Author No access Pages 171 - 172