Dr. Tanaka Chidora

Profile

Academic position	Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fields	African Studies,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
Keywords	memory, Gukurahundi, Zimbabwean Literature, violence, amnesia

Current contact address

Country	South Africa
City	Witsieshoek
Institution	University of the Free State (UFS)
Institute	Department of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler	Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship	01/09/2021

Program(s)

2021	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023	Tanaka Chidora: Aestheticising Vulgarity and Marginality: Zimdancehall as a subcultural revolution. In: Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando, The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 26-55
2023	Tanaka Chidora and Joseph Mujere: Burying Sauro: The necrography of Zimdancehall. In: Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando, The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 213-238
2023	Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando: Introduction: Locating Zimdancehall in the Trajectory of Music in Zimbabwe. In: Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando, The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 1-25
2023	Zvinashe Mamvura and Tanaka Chidora: Self/Re-naming in Zimdancehall: The (De)formation of a Culture?. In: Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando, The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 140-164
2023	Tanaka Chidora and Sheunesu Mandizvidza: The Literary Legitimation of Zimbabwe's Sellout Discourse. In: Munyaradzi Nyakudya, Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph Mujere, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and sellouts. Routledge, 2023. 35-57
2023	Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga and Ezra Chitando: The Zimdancehall Revolution: Critical Perspectives . Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
2023	Tanaka Chidora: Towards Shonglish? An analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Ancestors (1996). In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy and Frank Schulze-Engler, English in the World of Strangers. Routledge, 2023.
2023	Tanaka Chidora: Towards Transcultural Globalectics. In: Sylvia Anastasijevic, Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler, The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions: Festschrift to Frank Schulze-Engler. Bloomsbury, 2023.