The Most Popular Shona Male Anthroponyms

Makondo, Livingstone

doi:10.1080/0972639x.2013.11886659

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“…"Male children are 'favoured' "because they ensure the immediate continuation of a father and clan name" in the patriarchal society ([22]:12). With this in mind, Makondo [26] concludes:…”

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Within the patriarchal vertigo, one of the "maladroit practices" and yet dominant prongs it protracts is the doctrine of 'the superiority of the male' over the female ([3]:208). Linked to the doctrine is the notion that a male child ensures the protraction of the father' and clan's name in a male-controlled culture [22]. Therefore, a male child is foregrounded as being more important than a female child [23].…”

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perhaps this is why "in Africa, most women are stereotyped as the submissive, while men are dominant" ([25]:15). For Makondo [22,26], among the Shona in Zimbabwe, male supremacy is evinced even in the Shona's anthroponomastic dynamics and trends. Apparently, the "Shona oral tradition has it that the Shona society used to value more male children…a mother who bore boys was proudly named Vachizvaramachinda (mother of boys) and was highly valued when compared to Vamachekanhembe (mother of girls)" ( [22]:12 original italics).…”

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Makondo [22,26], among the Shona in Zimbabwe, male supremacy is evinced even in the Shona's anthroponomastic dynamics and trends. Apparently, the "Shona oral tradition has it that the Shona society used to value more male children…a mother who bore boys was proudly named Vachizvaramachinda (mother of boys) and was highly valued when compared to Vamachekanhembe (mother of girls)" ( [22]:12 original italics). Makondo also states that some polygamous marriages in Zimbabwe were due to the husbands' quest for women who would give birth to baby boys.…”

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 99%

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This chapter reflects on how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in multifarious ways, projects and confronts a nuanced (and blatant) exaltation of maleness over femaleness in her fiction. Adichie’s fiction mainly presents (Black) women as constantly living in patriarchal and repressive spaces characterised by multifaceted discriminations, marginalisation, abuse, commodification and censorship, all of which are protracted by the notion that femaleness should live in total subjection to maleness. To instantiate her opposition to this practice, Adichie accords authoritative roles and voices to her female characters, despite their living under repressive and constraining spaces. Reliant on the postcolonial feminist theory, this chapter analyses some of Adichie’s prose works, namely; Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and The Thing Around Your Neck to foreground appropriation of her feminist manifesto. The analysis positions Adichie’s prose as one that falls within the ambits of contemporary literary works that project women confronting and contesting hydra-headed manifestations of patriarchal repression, its attendant practices and ideologies, and gender inequality. Adichie’s prose is herein appraised as a literary space within which varied socio-cultural trajectories and gender inequalities in particular are expressed in a postcolonial context.

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“…"Male children are 'favoured' "because they ensure the immediate continuation of a father and clan name" in the patriarchal society ([22]:12). With this in mind, Makondo [26] concludes:…”

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

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Section: Adichie's Feminist Stancementioning

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“…It is in this light that this chapter looks at the significance of these names of Pentecostal churches. On the other hand, studies that have addressed the theme of names in Zimbabwe (see for example Kahari 1972, Pongweni 1983and 2001, Tatira 2004, Makondo 2007, and Makoni, Makoni and Mashiri 2007 have not addressed the theme in relation to Pentecostal ministries. This study endeavours to fill this lacuna in the extant literature on naming in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism.…”

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PROPHETS, PROFITS AND THE BIBLE IN ZIMBABWE : Festschrift for AYNOS MASOTCHA MOYO

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Kügler

2013

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Some reflections on selected themes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction and her feminist manifesto

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction, namely, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck generally reflects an intersection of black women’s experiences in a variety of contexts. In Adichie’s fiction, motifs that feature in the domain of identity politics and gender discourse are brought into critical focus. Among these motifs are appraisals of African names, stereotyping complexions, racialisations of hair and other themes such as the commodification of the female body. In Adichie’s fiction, these aspects are thematised as key features of black women’s identity and therefore worth considering in identity politics and gender discourse. In this article, Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is relied upon as a summary of her authorial vision, ideology and feminist outlook. This article appreciates how Adichie seeks to reposition postcolonial hermeneutics on black women’s identity by bringing to light some challenges that are faced by these women in her fiction. Adichie’s fiction is appraised for its aim to widen the contemporary African critique-scape on racial, gender and identity issues.

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The Most Popular Shona Male Anthroponyms

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Perspective Chapter: The Female Body on the Phallocentric Altar – Appropriations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Feminist Manifesto

Perspective Chapter: The Female Body on the Phallocentric Altar – Appropriations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Feminist Manifesto

PROPHETS, PROFITS AND THE BIBLE IN ZIMBABWE : Festschrift for AYNOS MASOTCHA MOYO

Some reflections on selected themes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction and her feminist manifesto

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