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https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6719| Title: | Ophir in a Postcolony? Metaphor, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Paul Freeman's Rumours of Ophir | Authors: | Mutekwa, Anias Department of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies at Midlands State University, Zvishavane Campus, Gweru, Zimbabwe. |
Keywords: | Freeman Rumours of Ophir Detective novel Coloniality Zimbabwe |
Issue Date: | 2025 | Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group Routledge |
Abstract: | This article offers an exegesis of Paul Freeman's crime/detective novel, Rumours of Ophir, set in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. The argument contends that Freeman's deployment of the Western crime genre, the imperial and colonial Ophir metaphor, and the Sherlock Holmes-like detective entangles the plot and sub-plots in coloniality even though the implication is decolonial, its reliance on metropolitan literary tropes making it an ambivalent medium for a project of decoloniality. | URI: | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6719 |
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