Supporting the View that Zimbabwean Writers are not Court Jesters in View of Freedom Nyamubaya in “On the Road Again” and Chirikure-Chirikure in “We Shall Not Sleep”

Abstract

The author Freedom Nyamubaya is respected as the voice of the powerless in bringing the true account of the escapades of the armed struggle as an active member of the war of liberation, thus her writings are autobigographical.  Nyamubaya is well known for using Marxist feminist ideology in focusing on ways in which women are being oppressed through different systems of capitalism.  The Marxist feminist women’s liberation can be achieved through restructuring of the current capitalist situation, (Desai, 2014).   Chirikure Chirikure is greatly known as a mettlesome vernacular whose poetry mainly deals with contemporary issues and addresses his stories in denotative and connotative meanings.  Ideologically, the two writers Nyamubaya and Chirikure speculated their imaginations and visionary ideas to create a personal consciousness that is somehow time specific.  Rather than leaning on the dogma basis as most scholars do, the research seeks to contest a different point of view which brings clearly the light that Zimbabwean writers do not in any way court jest that is, aspiring to crave, elate and entertain the political table and all sorts of colonialism, neo colonialism, betrayals, violence and gender issues, thus no court jesting on all these momentous issues.   Mostly, senior leaders have a tendency of seeking only opinions and data that support the decisions they already made. They don’t elate the viewpoint of masses.   To this note, they surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear and insulate themselves from contrary data and perspectives of their interest.  And these people we call them court jesters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS                                                                                                              PAGE

Abstract

Dedication

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

1.0  Background of Study

1.1  Aims of the Study

1.2  Objectives of the Study

1.3  Research Questions

1.4  Research Methodology

1.5  Significance of Study

1.6  Justification of Study

1.7  Literature Review

1.8  Theoretical Framework

1.9  .1 Provisional Chapter Breakdown

1.9.2 Conclusion

2.0       Introduction

            2.1 About the Authors

            2.2 A Court Jester as a time waster

            2.3 Collective Punishment caused by Court Jesting

            2.4 Suppression of Human Rights caused by Court Jesters

            2.5 Dog-Eat Dog situation in Court Jesting

            2.6 A Court Jester is Insouciant

            2.7 Court Jesters are Killers

            2.8 Conclusion

3.0       Introduction

            3.1 Aphorisms in On the Road Again   

            3.2 Anthropomorphisms in On the Road Again

            3.3 Aphorisms in Hakurarwi – We Shall Not Sleep

            3.4 Anthropomorphisms in Hakurarwi – We Shall Not Sleep                                                                                                                           

            3.5 Conclusion

4.0       Introduction

            4.1 Court Jesting is a Result of Poverty

            4.2 Fear causes Court Jesting