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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... body , to run and search for her clothes after the wind had taken then away . She wanted to be alone with her body , not caring about clothes and people . Only the eyes of the wind and the trees were the friends she wanted to share her ...
... bodies , and their identities are shaped by how they relate to the violence and trauma involving space - time and the female body , as the sentences quoted at the outset intimate . A further aspect of Vera's uniqueness within Zimbabwe ...
... body , and does not make any attempt to control her movement . Although Ranger is right to describe the relationship between Cephas and Nonceba as ' unspoken love , '46 it is a love that is ... body , he is in her body 168 THE PLACE OF TEARS.
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 |