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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69 G. Ndhlala, Jikinya (Harare, College Press in Association with the Literature
Bureau, 1984 [1979]). 70 G. Kahari, 'Intellectual and Social Development in
Bernard Chidzero's N^vengamutswairo' in Aspects of the Shona Nove and Other
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69 G. Ndhlala, Jikinya (Harare, College Press in Association with the Literature
Bureau, 1984 [1979]). 70 G. Kahari, 'Intellectual and Social Development in
Bernard Chidzero's N^vengamutswairo' in Aspects of the Shona Nove and Other
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Armstrong, P., The Inn Trek (Salisbury, Welston Press, 1978). Armstrong, P., The
Pegasus Man (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1983). Burton, L., The Yellow
Mountain (Salisbury, Regal Publishers, 1978). Carney, D., Under a Raging Sky ...
Armstrong, P., The Inn Trek (Salisbury, Welston Press, 1978). Armstrong, P., The
Pegasus Man (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1983). Burton, L., The Yellow
Mountain (Salisbury, Regal Publishers, 1978). Carney, D., Under a Raging Sky ...
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Samupindi, C, Pawns (Harare, Baobab Books, 1992). Shaw, A., Kandoya:
Another Time, Another Place (Harare, Baobab Books, 1993). Sithole, N., The
Polygamist (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1973). Staunton, I. (ed), Writing Stili
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Samupindi, C, Pawns (Harare, Baobab Books, 1992). Shaw, A., Kandoya:
Another Time, Another Place (Harare, Baobab Books, 1993). Sithole, N., The
Polygamist (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1973). Staunton, I. (ed), Writing Stili
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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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