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.- Chapter 1: Comedy, politics, and comic aesthetics in post-coup Zimbabwe.- Chapter 2: Theorising resistance from the margins in Zimbabwe: nation, narration, and comic poetics.- Chapter 3: Change without change: reading the enduring ghost of Mugabeism in Kapfupi’s and Marabha’s comedies of the New Dispensation.- Chapter 4: On postcoloniality of the everyday in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: comic satire and humour in selected comedies by Sabhuku Vharazipi.- Chapter 5: Platformed satire and the politics of “kutonga” on President Mnangagwa’s Facebook Page.- Chapter 6: EDism, EDiocy and the performance of illegitimacy in the Second Republic: the case of Doc Vikela’s online stand-up comedies.- Chapter 7: The comic and the satirical in Zimbabwean electoral politics of the New Dispensation: ZimDaily cartoons and the 2023 harmonised elections.- Chapter 8: Subversive comedies and comic texts in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: towards a postcolonial comic poetics.

Comedy and Satire in Zimbabwe

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/08/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031874321, 978-3031874321
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      .- Chapter 1: Comedy, politics, and comic aesthetics in post-coup Zimbabwe.- Chapter 2: Theorising resistance from the margins in Zimbabwe: nation, narration, and comic poetics.- Chapter 3: Change without change: reading the enduring ghost of Mugabeism in Kapfupi’s and Marabha’s comedies of the New Dispensation.- Chapter 4: On postcoloniality of the everyday in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: comic satire and humour in selected comedies by Sabhuku Vharazipi.- Chapter 5: Platformed satire and the politics of “kutonga” on President Mnangagwa’s Facebook Page.- Chapter 6: EDism, EDiocy and the performance of illegitimacy in the Second Republic: the case of Doc Vikela’s online stand-up comedies.- Chapter 7: The comic and the satirical in Zimbabwean electoral politics of the New Dispensation: ZimDaily cartoons and the 2023 harmonised elections.- Chapter 8: Subversive comedies and comic texts in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: towards a postcolonial comic poetics.

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