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Author Pilossof, Rory.

Title The unbearable whiteness of being : farmers' voices from Zimbabwe / Rory Pilosoff.

Publication Info. Harare : Weaver Press ; Cape Town : UCT Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The history of colonial land alienation, the grievances fuelling the liberation war, and post-independence land reforms have all been grist to the mill of recent scholarship on Zimbabwe. Yet for all that the countryís white farmers have received considerable attention from academics and journalists, the fact that they have always played a dynamic role in cataloguing and representing their own affairs has gone unremarked. It is this crucial dimension that Rory Pilossof explores in The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. His examination of farmersí voices ñ in The Farmer magazine, in memoirs, and in recent interviews ñ reveals continuities as well as breaks in their relationships with land, belonging and race. His focus on the Liberation War, Operation Gukurahundi and the post-2000 land invasions frames a nuanced understanding of how white farmers engaged with the land and its peoples, and the political changes of the past 40 years. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being helps to explain why many of the events in the countryside unfolded in the ways they did.
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; List of Tables and Map; List of Appendices; A Note on Currency; Foreword; Introduction -- Why the Voices of White Farmers?; 1. White Farmers & their Representatives in Zimbabwe, 1890-2000; Introduction; 1890-1953: From Conquest to Federation; 1953-1980: From Federation to Independence; 1980-2000: From Independence to Jambanja; Conclusion; Notes; 2. No Country for White Men. White Farmers, the Fast-Track Land Reforms and Jambanja, 2000-2004; Introduction; 2000-2004: Jambanja; Conclusion; Notes
3. Discourses of Apoliticism in The FarmerIntroduction; Contextualising The Farmer & Media in Zimbabwe; Apoliticism & Affirmative Parochialism; The History, Content & Production of The Farmer; The Editors; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Discursive Thresholds & Episodes of Crisis. The Liberation War, Gukurahundi & the Land Occupations; Introduction; The Discursive Threshold; The Liberation War, Gukurahundi & the Shifting Discourses of Violence and Victimhood; 2000 & After: State-Sponsored Violence & the Reformed Victimhood of White Farmers; Conclusion; Notes
5. The Consolidation of Voice. White Farmers' Autobiographies & the Narration of Experience after 2000Introduction; Discourse & Myth; The Importance of Literature & Autobiography; Writing Traditions & Authorial Intentions; Myths & Themes; Audience; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Orphans of Empire'. Oral Expressions of Displacement & Trauma; Introduction; The Justice for Agriculture (JAG) Interviews; The Oral Account; The Trauma of Eviction; The Re-emergence of Past Discourse; 'I paid my houts everything': Labour Relations on White Farms; Remaining Apolitical in a Political Crisis; Conclusion; Notes
Appendix 1. CFU structure & list of past presidentsAppendix 2. Land use on large-scale commercial farms & area under cultivation in hectares, 1970-1999; Appendix 3. Summary of major crop1 sales in Z millions, 1970-1999; Appendix 4. The number of large-scale commercial farms & the total area occupied in hectares, 1970-1999; Appendix 5. White farmers killed between 1964-79, 1981-87 and 2000-04; Appendix 6. Date of purchase on the title deeds of farming properties listed in the 1997 acquisition list; Appendix 7. Biographical data on white farmers interviewed; Bibliography; Index; Epigraph
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Subject White people -- Zimbabwe -- History.
White people.
Zimbabwe.
History.
Farmers -- Zimbabwe -- History.
Farmers.
Zimbabwe -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pilossof, Rory. Unbearable whiteness of being. Harare : Weaver Press ; Cape Town : UCT Press, 2012 9781920499976 (OCoLC)785373891
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