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Pilossof (U. of Pretoria, South Africa) explores how white farmers in Zimbabwe have talked about land reforms and land evictions, drawing the material for analysis from The Farmer magazine, autobiographies written by white farmers, and oral testimonies of white farmers. He analyzes the descriptions, explanations, and narration of events that arise from these sources in order to investigate connections to pre-independence (Rhodesian) tropes of land, belonging, and race; the ways in which white farmers frame questions of land, land reforms, and the country's history; and the ways in which these frames have played their own role in the events surrounding the land issue in Zimbabwe. The analysis also connects to wider questions concerning the complexities of postcolonial transitions in Africa, construction of identities, and issues of how to define "African" history. Distributed in the US by African Books Collective. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)