The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern ZimbabweTHIS IS AN NJR - NOT JACKET BLURB, DO NOT USE IT THIS RAW FORM -This new and original work is the only recent monographic treatment of the Zimbabwean novel and its political implications. An earlier one by Veit-Wild (1992) has not been updated, and other, such as that by Zhuwarara (2001), are not easily available outside Zimbabwe. The author resided in Zimbabwe for almost a decade and has visited the country regularly in the last five years. She has published extensively on Zimbabwean literature, and brings to her work a deep contextual richness as well as theoretical sophistication. |
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... Butterfly Burning , and The Stone Virgins ) form a continuous narrative macro- sequence ( in the manner of Achebe's novelistic cycle , for example ) , nor that readers are advised to reorder them according to the sequence of nar- rated ...
... Butterfly Burning , even the anticipation is missing . In both of these texts , the central space is that of women's bodies : Without a Name is a story about rape and infanticide , while Butterfly Burning deals with unwanted pregnancy ...
... Butterfly Burning is likened to a sieve , which is then – via a text by an author writ- ing on textiles , quoted in a text to do with Australian and Cypriot artefacts – linked to ambiguity , uncertainty and anxieties about the ...
Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction 3333 | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime 56 | 56 |
Copyright | |
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The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe Ranka Primorac No preview available - 2006 |