The unbearable whiteness of being :
PILOSSOF, Rory
The unbearable whiteness of being : farmers' voices from Zimbabwe Rory Pilosoff - Harare : Cape Town : Weaver Press ; UCT Press, 2012. - xiv, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781779221698 9781920499976
Whites--History--Zimbabwe
Farmers--History--Zimbabwe
Farmers
Race relations
Whites
Zimbabwe--Race relations
Zimbabwe
DT2913.E87
DT2913.E87 PIL
The unbearable whiteness of being : farmers' voices from Zimbabwe Rory Pilosoff - Harare : Cape Town : Weaver Press ; UCT Press, 2012. - xiv, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781779221698 9781920499976
Whites--History--Zimbabwe
Farmers--History--Zimbabwe
Farmers
Race relations
Whites
Zimbabwe--Race relations
Zimbabwe
DT2913.E87
DT2913.E87 PIL