Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: some kinds of childhood -- Spaces of memory. Traversing enclosures of fantastic childhood: Geoffrey Ndhlala: Jikinya -- Childhood as narrative of tactical remembrance: Shimmer Chinodya: Dew in the morning -- Children of resistance. Childhood as a condition and a history: Wilson Katiyo: Son of the soil -- Other kinds of childhood journeying: Ben Chirasha (Shimmer Chinodya): Child of war -- Girlhoods. The nativism of girlhood tears: Yvonne Vera: Under the tongue -- Girlhood as a gift from death: Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous conditions -- Pestilence of silence: deaf and dumb childhood: Chenjerai Hove: Ancestors -- Dystopic childhoods. Killing fathers killing crows: Charles Mungoshi: Coming of the dry season/ some kinds wounds -- Childhood as critical thinking and writing: Dambudzo Marechera: The house of hunger -- The postnational as postchildhood. Versions of postcolonial postchildhood: Memory Chirere: Selected short stories -- Postnational childhood? or postcolonial postchildhood? Christopher Mlalazi: Running with mother -- Noviolet Bulawayo: We need new names.