ABSTRACT
The unhu literary gaze draws attention to characters' experiences of community and the several connections that are created in order to make the community possible. The unhu literary gaze is characterized by positive reading. The motive of such a reading is to promote unhu as a way of guaranteeing the survival of communities. The unhu gaze provides a different dimension to the texts whereby the heroine is a link in the chain of human communion. The unhu literary gaze pays attention to the ways in which texts represent communities engaging individuals and the multiple ways through which fall-outs are rehabilitated into the community. The unhu literary gaze has great lessons for the study of Zimbabwean children's literature and obviously other literary categories that are almost-always infused with didactic elements. Community disequilibrium is always certain in Zimbabwean children's texts. Disequilibrium enters the text through the actions of individuals bent on destroying the spirit of unhu.
