The article examines the literary representations of the nexus between migration and the post-2000 crisis in Zimbabwe from the prism of post-colonialism and economic migrancy. It discusses Chikwava’s Harare North and Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly mapping of the link between the local and the global, especially the way characters who migrate to “Harare North”—London, construct their aspirations, perceptions, and identities as they imagine the crisis at home and encounter life experiences at home and in Western metropolitan spaces that are defined by global capitalism. The paper therefore, examines Chikwava’s and Gappah’s depiction of the nature of the economic migrants’ escape from the effects of a local crisis and entrance into migrant spaces defined by global economic trajectories, and considers the contradictory positions they find themselves in as well as the various identities constituted thereof.
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