Chapters
Chapters
2023
“Overcomers: A Historical Sketch”, in Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall (eds), Reading from the South: African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work (Johannesburg: Wits University Press), pp. 89-96.
2022
“Against ‘African Popular Literature’ or, The Weeping Woman”, in Grace Musila (ed), Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 92-109.
2019
“Gwebede’s Wars: Anglophone Black Novels in Southern Africa”, co-authored with Stephen Chan, The Cold War Literature Handbook, ed. Andrew Hammond (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 551-569.
2014
“Lazymen’s Clinic: a Musing on Everyday Life and Research”, in Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome (eds), Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday (New York: Routledge), pp. 295-309.
2012
“Nation, Detection and Time in Contemporary Southern African Fiction”, in Anja Oed and Christine Matzke (eds), Life is a Thriller: Investigating African Crime Fiction (Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag), pp. 21-34.
2012
“Finding Yvonne”, in Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo (eds), Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press), pp. 365-374.
2010
“Rhodesians Never Die? The Zimbabwean Crisis and the Revival of Rhodesian Discourse”, in Joanne McGregor and Ranka Primorac (eds), Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival (Oxford: Berghahn), pp. 202-228.
2009
“The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-First Century Zimbabwe”, in Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds), Terror and the Postcolonial (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 254-272.
2006
“The Circularity of the Perverse: Zimbabwean Post-Independence Masculinity in Charles Mungoshi’s ‘The Hare’”, in Memory Chirere and Maurice Taonezvi Vambe (eds), Charles Mungoshi: A Critical Reader (Harare: Prestige Books), pp. 124-131.
2005
“The Eye of the Nation: Reading Ideology and Genre in a Zimbabwean Thriller”, in Robert Muponde and Ranka Primorac (eds), Versions of Zimbabwe (Harare: Weaver Press), pp. 161-176..
2002
”Iron Butterflies: Notes on Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning”, in
Robert Muponde and Mandi Taruvinga (eds), Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera (Oxford & Harare: James Currey & Weaver Press), pp. 101-108.