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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... Stone Virgins stands out spatio - temporally within Vera's opus have to be mentioned.40 One of them is to do with the static construction of Vera's female characters , discussed in the previous section . Of the two heroines of The Stone ...
... Stone Virgins also narrates the partial letting - up of Rhodesian spatial constraints , and the easing off of pressure exerted in the other novels by the counter - flow of circular time . The best illustration of this is the double role ...
... Stone Virgins represents this change - and constructs it as being both com- plex and ambivalent . The character of Cephas also points at a final key uniqueness of The Stone Virgins within Vera's opus . This is the first of Vera's novels ...
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 |