By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical- Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This study discusses a wide range of writing including novels by Coetzee, Gordimer, Head, Hove, and Vera.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From 'an endless drama of domicile and challenge' to 'a country with land but no habitat'

Chapter One: Possessions: Nationalisms and 'the land' in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988

Chapter Two: Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South African Fiction 1969-1979

Chapter Three: Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002

Chapter Four: From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000

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James Graham is a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University.