The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern ZimbabweThis book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which links the book to the topical Zimbabwean issue of land. |
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Page 166
The best illustration of this is the double role in the narrative of the city of
Bulawayo. As I explained above, the narrative lingers on the space of Bulawayo
only in the first and last chapters of the novel; the atrocities that take place in the ...
The best illustration of this is the double role in the narrative of the city of
Bulawayo. As I explained above, the narrative lingers on the space of Bulawayo
only in the first and last chapters of the novel; the atrocities that take place in the ...
Page 167
The Bulawayo of the last chapter, on the other hand, is a city of flowers: they are
everywhere in the city streets as Nonceba, who now lives here, moves through
them. Although it is possible to tell that some of the female flower-sellers she ...
The Bulawayo of the last chapter, on the other hand, is a city of flowers: they are
everywhere in the city streets as Nonceba, who now lives here, moves through
them. Although it is possible to tell that some of the female flower-sellers she ...
Page 215
44 Although the Rhodesian chronotope regards urban spaces as'white', colonial
Bulawayo was in fact preceded by a pre-colonial town. On this, see P. Kaarsholm
, 'Si Ye Pambiti - Which Way Forward? Urban Development, Culture and ...
44 Although the Rhodesian chronotope regards urban spaces as'white', colonial
Bulawayo was in fact preceded by a pre-colonial town. On this, see P. Kaarsholm
, 'Si Ye Pambiti - Which Way Forward? Urban Development, Culture and ...
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Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe |
| Author | Ranka Primorac |
| Publisher | I. B. Tauris, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1845111206, 9781845111205 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / African |
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