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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... Harvest of Thorns narrates the life of its central character , Benjamin Tichafa , from birth to the birth of his son , which symbolically closes a cycle of fam- ily events when Benjamin is 20 years old . The central part of Benjamin's ...
... Harvest of Thorns is , I would argue , a story of both personal and national emergence . - - As I indicated in my discussion of Nervous Conditions , ' emergence ' is a key concept in M. M. Bakhtin's typology of the Bildungsroman and ...
... Harvest of Thorns may be read as a technique of political subtlety , executed through the manipulation of genre.42 3 . On his return home from the war in Harvest of Thorns , Benjamin tells his mother : ' I'm clean . There are no ...
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 |