Abstract
The essay comparatively scrutinizes the world-making potential of two Zimbabwean novels (Chenjerai Hove’s 1988. Bones. Harare: Baobab Books; Bones and Brian Chikwava’s 2009. Harare North. London: Jonathan Cape. Harare North) against the background of, on the one hand, the official naming codes and practices of the Mugabeist state, and on the other, the emergent critical orthodoxy regarding the about-turn in the worldly orientation of Zimbabwe’s fiction since the political turmoil of the 2000s. I argue there is in fact a discernible strand of continuity between the cosmopolitan–nationalist inscriptions each novel performs, and that the textual dialogue between what I call their rebellious entextualizations troubles and interrupts the worlds of necropolitan naming.
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