ABSTRACT
The introduction situates Zimbabwe’s written Anglophone literature in the post-2000 period into a wider context of depictions of migration in recent African Anglophone writing and introduces mobility as a key category for literary analysis. The introduction identifies contemporary Zimbabwean fiction as an extremely interesting case for the study of literary engagements with migration and other forms of movement, but also argues that there is a need to develop an understanding of Zimbabwean mobility dynamics which goes beyond ‘exodus’, asylum, migration and escape, and the linearity of the received push-pull model. I therefore use mobility as a concept which is broader and more inclusive than migration. It includes hidden or less obvious dimensions of migration and other forms of physical movement as well as experiences of mobility which are not necessarily connected to physical movement across geographical space. The introduction also identifies four dynamics and contexts of mobility: intra-urban, rural-urban, transnational, and transcontinental.
