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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... Chimurenga or uprising - the final suc- cessor to the anti - colonial revolts of 1890s and 1970s . Some researchers have noted that the official representation of these events as aspects of an ongoing revolution ( i.e. as an expression ...
... Chimurenga , and calls for another uprising . Nehanda is a mhondoro , a Shona royal ancestral spirit , and her speaking voice resonates from the realm of the supernatural , outside of the space - time of the living.37 And yet , as a ...
... Chimurenga , the uprising against colonial rule , in 1896. While Hove's Bones merely evokes the symbolic and moral authority of the famous mhondoro ( royal ancestor spirit ) , Vera's novel chooses to narrate the course of the anti ...
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 |