ABSTRACT Scholarship on war songs in Zimbabwe tends to emphasise male-centred discourses that ignore the role of female combatants’ views and voices of the struggle in “narrating the nation” (with H. K. Bhabha, Nation and Narration, 1990). The aim of this article is to restore female voices by female combatants to convey their own realities about Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. Although there are many songs sung by women about the armed struggle, this article samples three songs to demonstrate that women used different methods to raise people’s political consciousness through the power of song. The songs to be textually analysed are “Zvinozibwa neZANU” (“Only ZANU knows about it”); “Tora Gidi Uzvitonge” (“Take the gun and liberate yourself”) and “Kugarira Nyika Yavo” (“To defend their country”). This article will demonstrate how women singers broke the silence by fighting in the liberation of Zimbabwe through the gun and the song.

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战争女孩与解放的回声：通过Chimurenga歌曲表达关于津巴布韦武装斗争的女性声音

摘要津巴布韦关于战争歌曲的奖学金倾向于强调以男性为中心的话语，而这些话语忽略了女性战斗人员的观点和斗争声音在“叙述国家”中的作用（与HK Bhabha合作，Nation and Narration，1990年）。本文的目的是恢复女性战斗人员的声音，以表达他们对津巴布韦解放斗争的现实。尽管女性唱有很多关于武装斗争的歌曲，但本文通过采样三首歌曲来证明女性使用不同的方法通过歌曲的力量来提高人们的政治意识。要进行文字分析的歌曲是“ Zvinozibwa neZANU”（“只有ZANU知道”）；“ Tora Gidi Uzvitonge”（“拿着枪解放自己”）和“ Kugarira Nyika Yavo”（“捍卫自己的国家”）。