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Papers by Faith Mkwesha
Teoreettisen keskustelun avaimet: Rasismi, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuuden purkaminen
Gaudeamus, Apr 14, 2021
Human well-being and capabilities: Thematic Module B
Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta: rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa
Gaudeamus, Apr 14, 2021
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean wom... more Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean women as writers and thus on women as producers, contesters and negotiators of gendered images, and the ways in which they write gender identities in and of the nation. I have selected Zimbabwean women-authored texts written in English, from 1950 to 2015. The fictional texts are set in five historical periods – pre-colonial and colonial incursions and the first chimurenga (war) from 1890-1897, colonial rule from 1898-1966, the second chimurenga 1966-1978, independence and the first two decades of self-rule from 1980-1999, and the third chimurenga? and the Zimbabwe crisis from 2000 to the present – each of which is marked by important gender (re)configurations. My delineation of the five historical periods refers to the setting, not production, of the primary texts. The periodization approach makes evident the significant shifts in gender relations and roles in the home and the nation, and t...
This chapter focuses on anti/racist activism from a decolonial perspective. We analyze racialized... more This chapter focuses on anti/racist activism from a decolonial perspective. We analyze racialized and racist representations and propose interventions from a decolonial perspective. We use Finnish problematic representation case studies showing racism and racist practices that inspired us to act in different ways as activists to advocate for change. Our activism is influenced by our work. Faith is a literary and cultural researcher and social justice activist, while Sasha is a visual artist and art-based researcher whose work has been exhibited in several countries. Our partnership emanates from our positionalities as black and brown women who emigrated
Zimbabwean women writers from 1950 to the present: recreating gender images
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Books by Faith Mkwesha
by Clelia O . Rodriguez, Faith Mkwesha, Pamela Lynn Chrisjohn, Glenda Mejía, Mary Chakasim, Dr. Anthony Guerra, CK Samuels, Jackie Lee, Shauna Landsberg, Danielle Denichaud, Karthik Vigneswaran, Aquib Shaheed Yacoob, Anthazia Kadir, and Octavio Quintanilla
Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of Liberation, 2023
This is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron th... more This is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech. A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.
Teoreettisen keskustelun avaimet: Rasismi, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuuden purkaminen
Gaudeamus, Apr 14, 2021
Human well-being and capabilities: Thematic Module B
Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta: rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa
Gaudeamus, Apr 14, 2021
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean wom... more Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean women as writers and thus on women as producers, contesters and negotiators of gendered images, and the ways in which they write gender identities in and of the nation. I have selected Zimbabwean women-authored texts written in English, from 1950 to 2015. The fictional texts are set in five historical periods – pre-colonial and colonial incursions and the first chimurenga (war) from 1890-1897, colonial rule from 1898-1966, the second chimurenga 1966-1978, independence and the first two decades of self-rule from 1980-1999, and the third chimurenga? and the Zimbabwe crisis from 2000 to the present – each of which is marked by important gender (re)configurations. My delineation of the five historical periods refers to the setting, not production, of the primary texts. The periodization approach makes evident the significant shifts in gender relations and roles in the home and the nation, and t...
This chapter focuses on anti/racist activism from a decolonial perspective. We analyze racialized... more This chapter focuses on anti/racist activism from a decolonial perspective. We analyze racialized and racist representations and propose interventions from a decolonial perspective. We use Finnish problematic representation case studies showing racism and racist practices that inspired us to act in different ways as activists to advocate for change. Our activism is influenced by our work. Faith is a literary and cultural researcher and social justice activist, while Sasha is a visual artist and art-based researcher whose work has been exhibited in several countries. Our partnership emanates from our positionalities as black and brown women who emigrated
Zimbabwean women writers from 1950 to the present: recreating gender images
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
Interview with Petina Gappah
Imbizo
This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, So... more This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016). Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.
by Clelia O . Rodriguez, Faith Mkwesha, Pamela Lynn Chrisjohn, Glenda Mejía, Mary Chakasim, Dr. Anthony Guerra, CK Samuels, Jackie Lee, Shauna Landsberg, Danielle Denichaud, Karthik Vigneswaran, Aquib Shaheed Yacoob, Anthazia Kadir, and Octavio Quintanilla
Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of Liberation, 2023
This is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron th... more This is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech. A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.