White Zimbabwean memoirs contest land loss via colonial-era ideology.

Evidence

Texts written by some white Zimbabweans in the post-2000 dispensation are largely shaped by their authors’ endeavor to contest the loss of lands they held prior to the onset of the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP). Written as memoirs, these texts are bound by the tendency to fall back on colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas in their narration of aspects of a conflict in which tropes such as truth, justice, patriotism, and belonging were not only evoked but also reframed. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 4

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the reader’s framework of a threatened-dominant group responding after actual displacement: rather than the grievance circuit dissolving or finding a new target, it latches onto the formative ideology of the period of dominance. — connects to: White Zimbabwean authors write from a sustained Rhodesian supremacist mindset even after losing land — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 13; White farmer memoirs undercut their own entitlement claims by clinging to Rhodesian supremacist discourse — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 82; White Rhodesian memoirs recast Black land reclamation as incomprehensible criminality lacking popular support — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 80 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• White Zimbabwean authors write from a sustained Rhodesian supremacist mindset even after losing land #expands (0.90) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 13
• White farmer memoirs undercut their own entitlement claims by clinging to Rhodesian supremacist discourse #corroborates (0.88) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 82
• White Rhodesian memoirs recast Black land reclamation as incomprehensible criminality lacking popular support #exemplifies (0.85) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 80
• Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic #exemplifies (0.85) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 48
• Dispossessed white farmers fought land reform through courts, concessions, alliances, and memoirs #expands (0.85) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 10
• Rhodesian memoirism erases 90 years of black land hunger as legitimate motive #corroborates (0.82) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 80
• White Zimbabweans helped cause the post-2000 crisis by clinging to colonial identities #expands (0.78) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 11
• White Rhodesian memoirs narrate the liberation war so as to erase black military efficacy #expands (0.78) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 67
• White colonials were themselves bound and trapped by empire #complicates (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1371