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Journal articles on the topic "Shona literature"

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Makaudze, Godwin. "THE DISADVANTAGED AND THE DISABLED IN SHONA CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE NGANO (FOLKTALE) GENRE." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 34, no. 2 (2016): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/942.

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Contemporary Shona society in Zimbabwe has witnessed the mushrooming of organisations meant to protect the disabled and the vulnerable. In addition, empowering legislative measures have been put in place. In most cases, however, such efforts bear limited fruits, especially because they are not in sync with Shona practice. They are pursued as if the Shona people had never known the existence and observance of human rights and privileges. Using the Afrocentricity theory and drawing examples from the Shona ngano (folktale) genre, this article posits that Shona oral traditions are laden with the indigenous people’s philosophy and approach to various kinds of impairments and disadvantages which can be adopted and adapted by contemporary societies.
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Matambirofa, Francis. "Pathos, Disguise and Mischief: A Celebration of the Underdog in Traditional Shona Literature." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 27, no. 2 (2018): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/2347.

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Traditional Shona literature, which in the context of this article encompasses folktales, myths, and legends, as well as other oral art forms deploys devices such as pathos, disguise, and mischief, among others. Through these devices, preliterate Shona literature celebrates the struggle of the underdog to transcend the limitations imposed by their circumstances. Underdogs comprise such people as the sick, the old and the disabled, among others. This article seeks to describe the fantastic accomplishments of underdogs and demonstrate how they are delivered through the midwifery of pathos, disguise and mischief, which is carefully designed to offset the underdogs’ impoverishment in terms of wealth, health, looks, social influence and other attributes. Inter alia, the article demonstrates that the Shona worldview as expressed in traditional Shona literature is a democratic, facilitative space in which special laws of justice and retribution are deployed to catapult the underprivileged in their quest to reclaim their abused humanity.
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Mavesera, Miidzo, and Davie E. Mutasa. "Empowerment through indigenous literature: The case of Shona novels." South African Journal of African Languages 29, no. 1 (2009): 74–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2009.10587318.

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Carter, Hazel. "Two Shona verbal infixes." South African Journal of African Languages 10, no. 4 (1990): 365–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1990.10586870.

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Gibbs, James, and Emmanuel Mudhliwa Chiwome. "A Critical History of Shona Poetry." World Literature Today 72, no. 1 (1998): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40153701.

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Dewey, William J. "Shona Male and Female Artistry." African Arts 19, no. 3 (1986): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336415.

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Chingombe, Agrippa, Mandova Evans, and Simon Nenji. "Perception And Management of Human Fertility: A Shona Landscape." International Journal of Management and Sustainability 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/journal.11/2012.1.1/11.1.1.12.

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The history of the Shona people has it formally and informally that fertility is an issue of major concern to the couple, family and community. However, very little literature has been documented concerning the Shona worldview of fertility, as well as its causes and effects. Most of the knowledge and belief systems exist in oral form to the extent that, there is a temptation to exaggerate and mystify as well as misrepresent the concept and its practice. This makes it difficult for outsiders and other non-practising Shona people to appreciate the value of this real life-long African belief system, which has survived the test of time. The paper seeks to offer a philosophical insight and analysis of the perception and management of human fertility among the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
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CHIWOME, EMMANUEL M. "Modern Shona Literature as a Site of Struggle, 1956–2000." Matatu 34, no. 1 (2007): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205665_011.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "An Eco-critical Exegesis of Shona Taboos." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 33, no. 2 (2021): 143–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929x.2021.1970356.

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Dembetembe, N. C. "Aspects of negation in Shona." South African Journal of African Languages 6, no. 1 (1986): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1986.10586642.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shona literature"

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Mancuveni, Melania. "Urbanisation, Shona culture and Zimbabwean literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10782.

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This thesis examines the impact of urbanisation on Zimbabwean culture, particularly the Shona culture as it is represented in Zimbabwean literature. My main argument in this thesis is that Zimbabwean literature suggests that urbanisation is harmful and destructive to the Shona culture and the way of life of the Shona people.
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Tierney, Robin Leah. "Japanese literature as world literature: visceral engagement in the writings of Tawada Yoko and Shono Yoriko." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/750.

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This dissertation argues that the writings of the contemporary Japanese writers Tawada Yoko and Shono Yoriko should be understood as literature that is commenting upon global processes and therefore categorized within the newly re-deployed category of "World Literature." In the first chapter I explore the political project of Shono Yoriko's fictional and polemical writings. Shono uses the bundan (literary establishment) as a platform for her critique of neo-liberal economic trends and launches a campaign that is both global in scope and kyoku-shi (hyper-personal) in tone. She counters universally applicable socio-economic trends with intensely personal myths and private vendettas against public intellectuals who deny the value of non-profit-grossing "serious" literature. In chapter two I perform a close reading of her 2004 novel Kompira as well as her busu mono (ugly tales). Kompira, I argue, is both a historical narrative of a particular kompira kami (deity) and the postulating of a system of resistance that involves hybridity and embodiment. While Tawada Yoko is most often identified as a border-crossing, multi-lingual writer who publishes in both German and Japanese, in chapter three I argue that this "identity" threatens to eclipse the ways in which she investigates the bodily reception of language. My claim is that Tawada's interstitial explorations pose translation and bodily coding as inherent to language acquisition in general and suggests that all words carry their own libidinal imprint. In chapter four I argue that Tawada mines bodily processes for her representational strategies. In Tawada's texts the unraveling of national and masculine aesthetics forms a critical part of decoding the body as a fixed and gendered entity. . When Tawada positions the male body as an object of tactile inquiry and explores the bodily-confusion-with-another inherent in the process of ovulation as a narrative drive, I see a re-working of corporeal and cognitive logics. This reworking, I contend, is not a conclusive "righting of wrongs" but an invitation to join in the ongoing process of articulating difference in a potentially post-national world.
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Masowa, Angeline. "Gender and humour; Complexities of women's image politics in Shona humourous narratives." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25340.

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Humour represents an ideal site for understanding how everyday social dynamics influence ideology and the social structure (Sue & Golash-Boza, 2013:4). This research is an examination of how gender is expressed in Shona humour. Particular emphasis is paid to how women are presented in Shona humorous narratives. Though 'what a person does in a jest is usually not accorded the same weight of responsibility as what he does seriously, humour provides a means to test the openness, accessibility, and riskiness of sensitive issues' (Lang & Lee, 2010:47). This study examines how women in particular, are reflected in Shona humour. Humour provides a 'safe' climate for expressing 'system-justifying' beliefs, (Ford et al. 2013), and this study is an exploration of the Shona beliefs about women and the reinforcement of gender norms as expressed in Shona humour. The study derives impetus from the fact that while images of women have been studied in literary and lexicographic works in Shona in particular, aspects of humour and how it presents women remain largely under-studied, as humour studies as a discipline, despite its long history the world over, is still at its infancy in Zimbabwe. From a corpus of jokes that were circulated on the social media, particularly Facebook and WhatsApp, the study examines how women are presented in Shona humour. The research made use of the Superiority Theory of humour, Incongruity and Feminism to argue that Shona humour expresses oppressive and unjust gender relations. While the humorous Shona narratives demonstrate a complex portrayal of women, generally, Shona humour expresses, ratifies and reinforces repressive norms and restrictive stereotypes about women. Women are presented as immoral, malicious and intellectually, socially and emotionally inferior to men. The study therefore argues that humour facilitates the process of promoting gender stereotypes as well as fostering gender discrimination in Shona.
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Gambahaya, Zifikile. "An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9678.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link between creative writing and nationalism, which is the context in which creativity takes place, an attempt is made to outline major trends in nationalist history vis-a-vis colonialism. Having set the background for analysis, the research focuses on texts that are published in the context of the apparent cultural renaissance that is ushered by the apparent victory of African nationalism over colonialism. The texts are analysed in the context of the dialectic of nationalism and colonialism.
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Zigara, Herbert. "Gender bias in selected Shona novels." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22168.

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This study sought to uncover gender bias in selected Shona novels and examine the manner in which authors present the subject. The major objectives were to identify the effects of hostile gender relations and assess Shona novel authors’ commitments to promote healthy gender relations which are pre-requisites for national development. The study adopted the dual approach by fusing feminism with Afrocentricity as the literary tool of analysis. These theories served as lenses for exploring gender biases in selected Shona novels. The liberal feminism was the most relevant feminist theory to this study because it advocates more about inclusion and unrestricted participation of women in all spheres of social life. The research was anchored on the qualitative design. The methodology used to gather data for analysis involved interviewing three out of four authors of this research’s selected Shona novels, eight Shona literature lecturers from teachers’ colleges and universities in Zimbabwe as well as five accomplished scholars who have also written their own Shona novels. Questionnaires were administered to thirty two students, twenty from teachers’ colleges and twelve from universities in Zimbabwe. The total number of all participants in this study was forty-eight and purposive sampling was used to come up with the sample. Data was analysed in descriptive form. This study has established that most Shona novelists are not gender neutral. While some authors are championing the emancipation of women others are perpetuating their marginalisation. Basing on the findings of this study, the researcher recommends that Shona authors should be sensitised through workshops, seminars or conferences on the need to pen gender balanced novels if national development is to be realised. This would help the societies who are the consumers of such novels to be gender neutral through emulating the positive portrayal attributed to characters. The Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC), teachers’ colleges and universities should approve gender neutral Shona novels so that students can have appropriate role models to emulate. It is envisaged that this research will be of great benefit to all those who will have the privilege to access it. Gained knowledge will help to extricate women from marginalisation and also promote healthy gender relations.<br>African Languages<br>M.A. (African Languages)
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Mazuruse, Mickson. "The theme of protest in the post-independence Shona novel." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3949.

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The study discusses selected Shona novels‟ depiction of the theme of protest in the post-independence era in Zimbabwe. The ideas that these novels generate on protest are examined in the context of socio-political and socio-cultural issues in post-independent Zimbabwe. The study is an investigation of the extent to which protest literature is indispensable in the struggle of African people to liberate themselves from imperialist servitude. Novels on socio-political protest show how the government has failed to deliver on most of its promises because of neocolonialism and corruption. Novels on socio-cultural protest show how cultural innovations in post-independence Zimbabwe brought problems .The study comes to the conclusion that for literature to be reliable and useful to society it is not enough to highlight weaknesses in criticizing, but it should go beyond that and offer constructive and corrective criticism. This shows that protest literature is a vital tool for social transformation in Zimbabwe.<br>African languages<br>M.A. (African languages)
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Tembo, Charles. "Post-independence Shona poetry, the quest and struggle for total liberation." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/6106.

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This study pursues the quest and struggle for total liberation in post-independence Shona poetry. The study also relies on views of key respondents obtained through interviews and questionnaires. Couched and guided by Afrocentricity and Africana womanism, the study elucidates the politico-economic and socio-cultural factors that militate against Africa’s total liberation in general as well as women’s liberation, respectively. Simultaneously, critical judgments are passed on the extent to which poets immerse their art in African existential philosophy. The study is energized by the idea that pursuing the quest for authentic liberation provides a lens through which one can understand threats to Africa’s true liberation. It observes that poets and key informants largely attribute ersartz independence to internal problems. The researcher holds that it is problematic to hold a domesticated vision of the African condition to the extent that poets and other literary workers need to widen their canvas beyond fighting internal oppression and internationalise the struggle. The researcher argues that it is myopic and self-defeating to protest against Africa itself without giving adequate attention to the incapacitating hegemonic world system. Therefore, the poetry is lacking on its critique on domination. The centerpiece of the thesis is that in order to be purposeful and functional, poets need to grapple with both endogenous and exogenous factors that obstruct the march towards genuine liberation. The study also observes that in some instances poets produce cheap literature which is marked by a narrow and moralistic approach and this is attributable to the fact that poets lack a scientific vision in understanding reality. Concerning women’s authentic liberation, the commonly identified obstacles to women’s freedom are the male counterpart, self-depreciation, lack of education and culture. The study observes that women poets in Ngatisimuke (1994) and key respondents seem to approach gender relations from a feminist perspective and hence fail to situate women’s condition in the context of the history and culture that shape African gender relations. Women poets in Ngatisimuke fall short of internationalising their struggle in concert with the male counterpart such that their poetry degenerates into sponsored and misguided activism.<br>African Languages<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Nenduva, Aphios. "Investigating moral perversion in post-Independence Shona detective novels." Thesis, 2018. http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/25689.

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Text in English<br>The study unravels moral perversion in selected post-independence detective Shona novels. Moral perversion is a multi-faceted concept and the study focuses on corruption, sexual harassment, abuse of office, stealing, poaching and illegal manufacturing of intoxicating products as the key definers of moral perversion. Afrocentricity merged with Kawaida philosophy are the lenses used to pass critical judgements on the extent the selected literary practitioners portrayed literature rooted in the African ontological existence on moral perversion. Fictional works used as primary sources are Sajeni Chimedza (1984), Mutikitivha Dumbuzenene (1991), Munzwa mundove (1999) and Dandemutande, (1998). All the novels are set in the post-independence era in Zimbabwe when moral perversion is rife. The study is qualitative in nature and data was gathered using questionnaires and interviews from literary critics, publishers and novelists. Particular attention is paid on the causes of moral perversion, images of people in leadership positions and the implications of character assassination of leaders in relation to the development of purposeful literature. The study contends that moral insanity is an acknowledged problem in the post-independence era and novelists are portraying leaders as the chief culprits manning factionalism and unorthodox ways of acquiring resources at the expense of the majority of citizenry. Guided and informed by Afrocentricity, the study argues that novelists are raising pertinent issues although their views are myopic, simplistic and self-defeating because they are failing to see that the leaders are also victims who are victimizing other victims. Blaming the leadership on moral perversion ignoring the impact of colonialism, and neo-colonialism in shaping African personality creates more harm than good as this exonerates the imperialistic system of exploitation which impinges on African culture and personality. Therefore, the study argues that novelists erroneously blame individuals for the sins of a system. There is need to interrogate both external and internal factors to establish sustainable home-grown problem solving solutions to improve human condition and the development of functional literature in Africa.<br>African Languages<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Nyaungwa, Oscar. "Folktale influence on the Shona novel." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2710.

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This dissertation investigates the extent and type of influence the Shona folktale has had on the writing of the Shona novel. Of particular interest is how much influence the folktale has had on the early writers of Shona novels as compared to the modern writers. The study investigates folktale influence on the development of plot, setting and characterisation in targeted novels. With regard to the development of plot, the study focuses on folktale influence on the following aspects; the exposition, complication, climax and resolution. Looking at setting, the study investigates folktale influence on setting as place, time or social circumstances in which the stories happen. The study also investigates the type of characters the novelists portray and seek to detect any folktale influence on characterisation.<br>African Languages and Literature<br>Thesis (M.A.)
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Chigidi, Willie L. "The emergence and development of the Shona detective story as a fictional genre in Zimbabwean literature." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16468.

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This study b·aces the development of the Shona clctective story as a genre different from rhe mainstream Shona novel. The Shona detective story emerges from the non-detective traditional folktale and develops into rhree types, namely, the rudimentary form. the pure 'whoduniC, and the detectivethriller. An attempt is made to show that when the Shona detective story first appeared it was quite elementary and showed signs of me influence of Shona traditional folklore. But later on authors developed the detective narrative into pure 'whodunits' and detective-mrillers which showed influence of Western ftlms and English detective stories. The study ends with the argument that although at its highest level of development the Shona detective story manifests characteristics that make it a unique genre different from other Shona novels its treatment of female characters is not very different from their treatment in the mainstream Shona novel.<br>African Languages<br>M.A. (African Languages)
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Books on the topic "Shona literature"

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Johnson, Robert, Jr., J.D., ed. Shona. Rosen Pub. Group, 1997.

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Emmanuel, Chabata, ed. Duramazwi redudziramutauro nouvaranomwe. ALLEX Project, African Languages Research Institute, 2007.

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Chiwome, Emmanuel. A social history of the Shona novel. Mambo Press, 2002.

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Chiwome, Emmanuel. A social history of the Shona novel. Juta Zimbabwe (Pvt), 1996.

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Chiwome, Emmanuel. Zimbabwean literature in African languages: Crossing language boundaries. Booklove Publishers, 2012.

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Kahari, George P. Plots and characters in Shona fiction, 1956-1984: A handbook. Mambo Press, 1990.

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Pongweni, Alec J. C. Figurative language in Shona discourse: A study of the analogical imagination. Mambo Press, 1989.

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Malaba, Mbongeni Z. Zimbabwean transitions: Essays on Zimbabwean literature in English, Ndebele and Shona. Rodopi, 2007.

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Mwanaka, Tendai R. Zimbolicious anthology: An anthology of Zimbabwean literature and arts. Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2019.

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Bessire, Mark. Great Zimbabwe. F. Watts, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Shona literature"

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"‘Zimbolicious’: Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature." In Reading Contemporary African Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209373_015.

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Chimhundu, Herbert. "Sexuality and socialisation in Shona praises and lyrics." In Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511521164.013.

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"Violence and Communication in Shota Rustaveli’s The Lord of the Panther- Skin." In Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203341322-11.

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Shange, Nombulelo Tholithemba. "Fighting for Relevance." In Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1249-4.ch001.

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South Africa's recent higher education protests around fees and decolonizing institutions have shone a spotlight on important issues and have inspired global discussion. We witnessed similar resistance during apartheid, where African languages and ideas were limited. The educational space was the most affected by clashes between languages and ideas; we saw this in the prioritizing of English and Afrikaans over indigenous African languages and the prioritizing of Western medicine, literature, arts, culture, and science over African ones. This chapter will show how formal education and knowledge production in South Africa has been used as a tool to repress Black people, while discrediting their knowledge systems. This discussion will draw from impepho, which is rejected by Christians because its main use is for communicating with ancestors. The herb has many other medicinal uses, but it is still rejected. African practices are used and revitalized by AIC like the Shembe Church and revolutionary movements like FMF.
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"Chapter Three. Justifying the Margins: Nation, Canon, and Chinese Fiction in Meiji and Taishō Chinese-Literature Historiography (Shina bungakushi)." In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/hedb19334-006.

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Conference papers on the topic "Shona literature"

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Marhamah, Marhamah, Witri Handayani, Mukhaiyar Mukhaiyar, and Syahrul Ramadhan. "Integrated Thematic Context on Contextual Learning Based on English Learning Process in the Fifth Year at As Shofa Islamic Elementary School." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iclle-18.2018.46.

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Alipour, Hanieh, Nick Pendar, and Kohinoor Roy. "ChatGPT Alternative Solutions: Large Language Models Survey." In 5th International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things. Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2024.1405114.

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In recent times, the grandeur of Large Language Models (LLMs) has not only shone in the realm of natural language processing but has also cast its brilliance across a vast array of applications. This remarkable display of LLM capabilities has ignited a surge in research contributions within this domain, spanning a diverse spectrum of topics. These contributions encompass advancements in neural network architecture, context length enhancements, model alignment, training datasets, benchmarking, efficiency improvements, and more. Recent years have witnessed a dynamic synergy between academia and industry, propelling the field of LLM research to new heights. A notable milestone in this journey is the introduction of ChatGPT, a powerful AI chatbot grounded in LLMs, which has garnered widespread societal attention. The evolving technology of LLMs has begun to reshape the landscape of the entire AI community, promising a revolutionary shift in the way we create and employ AI algorithms. Given this swift-paced technical evolution, our survey embarks on a journey to encapsulate the recent strides made in the world of LLMs. Through an exploration of the background, key discoveries, and prevailing methodologies, we offer an up-to-theminute review of the literature. By examining multiple LLM models, our paper not only presents a comprehensive overview but also charts a course that identifies existing challenges and points toward potential future research trajectories. This survey furnishes a well-rounded perspective on the current state of generative AI, shedding light on opportunities for further exploration, enhancement, and innovation.
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