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dc.contributor.authorMutekwa, Aniasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-04T13:07:07Z-
dc.date.available2025-09-04T13:07:07Z-
dc.date.issued2025-
dc.identifier.urihttps://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6719-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africaen_US
dc.subjectFreemanen_US
dc.subjectRumours of Ophiren_US
dc.subjectDetective novelen_US
dc.subjectColonialityen_US
dc.subjectZimbabween_US
dc.titleOphir in a Postcolony? Metaphor, Coloniality and Decoloniality in Paul Freeman's Rumours of Ophiren_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2025.2464345-
dc.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies at Midlands State University, Zvishavane Campus, Gweru, Zimbabwe.en_US
dc.relation.issn1013-929Xen_US
dc.description.volume37en_US
dc.description.issue1en_US
dc.description.startpage98en_US
dc.description.endpage105en_US
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