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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... characters . All the novels feature double or repeated displacements of some of the characters . Perhaps most signifi- cantly : all of these novels tell stories about remembering the dead . In this chapter , I argue that , through ...
... characters introduce into the novel a concept of space that equates familiarity with analysis ( Mr Smith , a white character , is an insect collector ) and is either personal in the individualised sense ( when a bat enters Mr Browning's ...
... characters in static worlds , or ( Zenzele ) point at narratives of emergence as absent . In a study of the continental and English Bildungsroman , Franco Moretti claims that the Bildungsroman as a type of narrative encapsulates the ...
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 |