In this book, which is a culmination of my doctoral thesis,I demonstrate that historical literature on the liberation war fought in the 1970s is a veritable stakeholder in the history issue in post independence Zimbabwe. It operationalizes history in a manner that not only illuminates but stimulates more thinking and debates on Zimbabwe's tumultuous politics of contested hegemony. It brings out crucial perspectives on nation and nationalism that potentially embellish current scholarship which has tended to neglect literary genres whenever discussing 'serious' matters.This is vital...