Mangena, T orcid.org/0000-0002-2333-763X (2024) Personal Names, Naming and Identity (Re)negotiation among Zimbabweans in the Diaspora. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 59 (5). pp. 1571-1584. ISSN 0021-9096
Abstract
This article discusses how Zimbabweans in the diaspora name their children to think through the dynamics of diasporic identity negotiation. Using qualitative data gathered through virtual ethnography, I grapple with the question how names and naming strategies allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora to imagine and negotiate what it means to belong to home and being in the diaspora. I make two conclusions from this study. First, I argue that there is a tendency among first-generation Zimbabweans in the diaspora to name children in ways that are symbolic of how they remain attached to their homeland’s ways of knowing the world. Second, I observe that others negotiate the balance between retaining their naming cultures and working towards the integration of their children into host cultures. This they do through a bestowal of names that highlight the children’s intercultural and hyphenated identities – that is, a simultaneous connection to homeland and host country.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Personal names; Zimbabweans; diaspora; namesakes; indigenous names; indigenous Christian names |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2023 15:43 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2024 17:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00219096221141345 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200015 |