ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of imagined identities of Zimbabwean nationhood in two televised documentaries, Nyadzonia Massacre and Colonial Era Atrocities, aired on Zimbabwe national television. Using qualitative semiotic analysis and borrowing from post nationalism, this article analyses how the two documentaries interweave memory and violence with the politics of nationhood and belonging during the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe. The paper also analyses how the films were packaged in order to undermine the semiotic resistance and autonomy of the viewer to create oppositional readership of the films.

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津巴布韦的万人坑和想象中的身份

摘要 本文分析了津巴布韦国家电视台播出的两部电视纪录片《尼亚佐尼亚大屠杀》和《殖民时代的暴行》中津巴布韦国家的想象身份的建构。本文使用定性符号学分析并借鉴后民族主义，分析了津巴布韦第三次奇穆伦加期间两部纪录片如何将记忆和暴力与民族和归属政治交织在一起。论文还分析了这些电影是如何包装的，以破坏观众的符号抵抗和自主性，从而创造出对电影的对立读者。