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Dr. Tanaka Chidora

LECTURER
Literary Studies

Research Areas

Memory Studies; Afrodiasporic Writing in English; Popular Music; Populism; Literary Theory,

Profile

Writer and Academic

Publications

  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. 2025. ‘Beyond Conformity: King Pinn’s subversive rap in post-2000 ZANUfied Zimbabwe’, accepted by Critical African Studies Journal 17(1): 1 – 17. (2025)
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681392.2024.2446525
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. 2025. ‘Tendai Huchu’s Speculative Fiction Corpus: A post-apocalypse or postdiaspora?’ In N. Butt and M. Stork, eds. ‘Africa in Europe, Europe in Africa’: Transcultural Histories in African Anglophone Literature and Media, A Special Issue for Matatu: Journal of African Literary and Cultural Studies 56(1): 105 – 129. (2025)
    https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/56/1/article-p105_5.xml?ebody=Article%20details
  • Book Chapters
    Nhemachena, N. and Chidora, T. 2025. ‘Language as Cartographic: How Petina Gappah maps the city in Rotten Row.’ In I. Mhute and E. Mavengano, eds. The Shifting Sociolinguistic Terrains in Postcolonial Anglophone African Literary Writings. London: Routledge: 273 – 293. (2025)
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-80614-8_13#citeas
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. 2024. ‘Zimbabwe, Marechera, Veit-Wild: Three biographies of mistrust.’ Matatu: Journal for African Literary and Cultural Studies, 55(1): 43 – 68. (2024)
    https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/55/1/article-p43_3.xml?ebody=pdf-130820
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2024. ‘Introduction: Flora Veit-Wild’s Dambudzo.’ In Tanaka Chidora, Memory Chirere, Sheunesu Mandizvidza and Pauline Mateveke, eds. Examining Flora Veit-Wild’s Dambudzo Marechera: Towards a contrastive analysis of the images of Flora Veit-Wild and Dambudzo Marechera. Special Issue in Matatu: Journal for African Literary and Cultural Srudies 55(1): 1 – 17. (2024)
    https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/55/1/article-p1_1.xml
  • Book
    The Zimdancehall Revolution (2024)
    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41854-9
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. 2024. ‘Aestheticising Vulgarity and Marginality: Zimdancehall as a sub-cultural revolution.’ In T. Chidora, D. R. Tivenga and E. Chitando, eds. The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27—57. (2024)
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41854-9_2
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. and Mujere, J. 2024. ‘Burying Sauro: The Necrography of Zimdancehall.’ In T. Chidora, D. R. Tivenga and E. Chitando, eds. The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 233—260. (2024)
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41854-9_10
  • Book Chapters
    Mamvura, Z. and Chidora, T. 2024. ‘Self/re-naming and Chanting: the (de)formation of a culture?’ In T. Chidora, D. R. Tivenga and E. Chitando, eds. The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 151—177. (2024)
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41854-9_7
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T., Tivenga, D. R. and Chitando, E. 2024. ‘Introduction – Locating Zimdancehall in the Trajectory of Music in Zimbabwe.’ In T. Chidora, D. R. Tivenga and E. Chitando, eds. The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1—26. (2024)
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41854-9_1
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. 2024. ‘On Transcultural Globalectics: Ngugi meets Schulze-Engler.’ In Sylvia Anastasijevic, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler, eds. The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions: Festschrift to Frank Schulze-Engler. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 87—103. (2024)
    https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350374102&tocid=b-9781350374102-chapter3
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. 2024. ‘Towards Shonglish? An analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Ancestors (1996).’ In: F. Schulze-Engler and P. Malreddy, eds. Mapping World Anglophone Studies. London: Routledge: 197—211. (2024)
    https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/101813/1/9781040255292.pdf#page=218
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Ngara, K. 2023. ‘And Now the Poets Do Not Speak: The Politics of Representation in Zimbabwean Writing, 1954—2023.’ Imbizo 14(2): 1—18. (2023)
    https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/Imbizo/article/view/13545
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Ngara, K. 2023. ‘And Now the Poets Do Not Speak: The Politics of Representation in Zimbabwean Writing, 1954—2023.’ Imbizo 14(2): 1—18. (2023)
    https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.25159/2663-6565/13545
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2023. ‘The Literary Legitimation of Zimbabwe’s Sell-out Discourse.’ In M. Nyakudya, W. Mwatwara and J. Mujere, eds. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and sellouts. London: Routledge, pp. 35-57. (2023)
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003222002-4/literary-legitimation-zimbabwe-sellout-discourse-tanaka-chidora-sheunesu-mandizvidza
  • Journal Article
    Chidora T. 2021. ‘Heroes and Heroines in Zimbabwean Fiction.’ Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 2(2): 13-31. (2021)
    https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-aa_jalls-v2-n2-a2
  • Book Chapters
    Fingson, K. and Chidora, T. 2020. ‘Was Robert Mugabe the Re-incarnation of Nehanda’s Bones? An Analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones.’ In E. Chitando, ed. Politics and Religion in Zimbabwe: The Deification of Robert G. Mugabe. London: Routledge, pp. 88-98. (2020)
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367823993-7/robert-mugabe-re-incarnation-nehanda-analysis-chenjerai-hove-bones-1989-kundai-watson-fingson-tanaka-chidora
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2019. ‘Exilic Consciousness and the Ambivalent Fate of the Exiled in Zimbabwean Fiction with Special Reference to Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009)’. Zambezia 45 (1). (2019)
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Ngara, K. 2019. ‘Harare (in the) North: the metaphor of an irresolvable exile dialectic.’ Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 4(1): 78-93. (2019)
    https://kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/65
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T., Mandizvidza, S., Chibvamushure, B. 2019. ‘The Feminine and the Subaltern in Literary Imaginations: An Ecofeminist Reading of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones.’ Zambezia, Gender Special Issue. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications: 30-47. (2019)
  • Poetry/Short Stories
    Because Sadness is Beautiful?: Poems by Tanaka Chidora (2019)
    https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/because-sadness-is-beautiful
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. 2018. ‘Beyond the Cultural and Nationalist Imaginary: Zimdancehall and the Subversion of Female Objectification’. In B. Chinouriri, U. Kufakurinani and M. Nyakudya, eds. Victors, Victims and Villains: Women and Musical Arts in Zimbabwe’s Past and Present. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp. 98-117. (2018)
  • Journal Article
    Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2017. ‘Dystopian and Utopian Homecomings in Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns and Olley Maruma’s Coming Home’. Pivot, 6(1): 52-74. (2017)
    https://pivot.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/pivot/article/view/40278
  • Book Chapters
    Mandizvidza S. and Chidora, T. 2016. ‘Listening to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Speaking to Africa: An Open-Minded Approach’. In R. Magosvongwe, O. Mlambo and E. Ndlovu, eds. Africa’s Intangible Heritage and Land: Emerging Perspectives. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, pp. 183-196. (2016)
  • Book Chapters
    Chidora, T. and S. Mandizvidza. 2015. ‘From Farm Labourer to Farm Owner: The legitimacy of the Black Farm Labourer as an Owner of Land’. In Z. Makwavarara, R. Magosvongwe and O. Mlambo, eds. Dialoguing Land Indigenisation in Zimbabwe and other Developing Countries: Emerging perspectives. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications. (2015)