Dr Anias Mutekwa

(a)  Academic Qualifications  

1. PhD in English: 2020 (North West University, South Africa)  

(ii) Master of Arts in English: 2002 (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)

1. Bachelor of Arts Honours in English : 1999 ( University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)  
2. Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education: 2014 (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)
3. : Certificate in Education (Secondary): 1991 (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)

Research interests  

• Zimbabwean, African, Postcolonial and Diasporan Literatures. 
• Ecocriticism
•  Gender, Identity, and Nation in Literature. 
• Coloniality and Decoloniality in literature 
• Children’s Literature. 

 Publications  

Book Chapters 

1. Mutekwa A. 2013. ‘Blowing People’s Minds’: Anarchist Thought in Dambudzo Marechera’s Mindblast’. In Reading Marechera, Ed.  Grant Hamilton. Suffolk:  James Currey, pp. 34-37. 

Articles in Refereed Journals 

1. Mutekwa A. 2009. ‘Gendered Beings, Gendered Discourses: the Gendering of Race, Colonialism and Anti-colonial Nationalism in three Zimbabwean Novels’. Social Identities 15 (5): pp. 725-740. 
2. Mutekwa A. 2009. ‘ Of “Saints” and “Devils” : Mapping a Quasi-Anarchist Organisation in Mario-Vargas Llosa’ s The War of the End of the World, and an Anarchist one in Dambudzo Marechera’s Black Sunlight. ‘ Unisa Latin American Report 1 (2): 168-181. 
3. Mutekwa A. 2010. ‘The Avenging Spirit: Mapping an Ambivalent Spirituality in Zimbabwean Literature in English’. African Studies 69(1): 161-176.  
4. Musanga T. & Mutekwa  A. 2011.’Destabilizing and Subverting Patriarchal and Eurocentric Notions of Time: An Analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones and Ancestors’. Journal of Black Studies 42 (8): 1299-1319. 
5. Mutekwa A. 2012. ‘The Recovery of Narratives and Subjectivities of Brutalised and Traumatised Women in Neshani Andreas’s The Purple Violet of Oshaantu and Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus’. Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, 3 (1): pp. 54-68. 
6. Mutekwa A. 2012. ‘Gendered Globalisation Discourses : Implications for the African Renaissance’. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 7(1),pp. 5-21. 
7. Mutekwa A. & Musanga T. 2013. Subalternizing and Reclaiming Ecocentric Environmental Discourses in Zimbabwean Literature: (Re) reading Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and Chenjerai Hove’s Ancestors. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20 (2), pp. 239-257 
8. H. T. Ngoshi and Mutekwa A. 2013. ‘The Female Body and Voice in Audiovisual Propaganda Jingles: The Mbarë Chimurenga Choir Women in Zimbabwe’s Contested Political Terrain.’ Critical Arts 37(2), pp. 235-249. 
9. Musanga T. & Mutekwa A. 2013. Supra-masculinities and Supra-femininities in Solomon Mutsvairo’s Chaminuka : Prophet of Zimbabwe (1983) and Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993).’African Identities 11 (1), pp. 79-92. 
10. Mutekwa A. 2013. ‘From Boys to Men’? African and Black Masculinities, Triangular Desire, Race and Subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s Short Stories’. Social Dynamics 39 (2), pp.. 353-367. 
11. Mutekwa A. 2013. ‘In this Wound of Life…’ Dystopias and Dystopian Tropes in Chenjerai Hove’s Red Hills of Home’. Journal of Literary Studies 29(4), pp. 98115. 
12. Mutekwa A. 2013. ‘The Challenges of Using the Communicative Approach in the Teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Zimbabwe: Implications for ESL Teacher Education’. Africa Education Review 10(3), pp. 542-556. 
13. Mutekwa A. 2017. ‘Through a Charged Field: Authoritative Discourses and Dialogism in Solomon Mutsvairo’s Chaminuka : Prophet of Zimbabwe (1983)’.  Research in African Literatures 48 (4), pp. 193-208. 
14. Mutekwa A. 2019. ‘The Journey Motif, Childhood, Race and Nation in Sandra Braude’s Mpho’s Search (1994)’. African Identities 17 (1), pp. 51-63. 
15. Mutekwa A. 2022. ‘An Analysis of Intertextual Entanglements in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools’. Scrutiny 2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 27(1), pp.33-47. 
16. Mutekwa A. 2022. ‘Mapping Postcolonial Marginalisation and Reactive/Adaptive Models of Masculinity: Tropes of Hegemonic Masculinities, Masculine (Over)Compensation and Hybridity in Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names’.  Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Culture  53 (1-2), pp.174-208.
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18. Mutekwa A. 2023. ‘Masculinities and the “Colonial Unconscious” in Shimmer Chinodya’s Dew in the Morning.’ Journal of the African Literature Association 17(3), pp. 373-388.  
20. Mutekwa A. 2024. ‘The Poetics of Pluriversality and Animist Realism in Two Zimbabwean Short Stories.’   Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies 15 (2):15 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/17682 
22. Mutekwa A. 2025. ‘Ophir in a Postcolony: Metaphor, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Paul Freeman’s Rumours of Ophir.’  Current Writing : Text and Reception in Southern Africa 37 (1), p. 98-105.