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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... critical texts - sometimes , surprisingly , uniting opponents in heated literary - ideological debates . In naming such tendencies , their implications and the critical texts in which they may be dis- cerned , I cannot aspire to being ...
... critical atti- tudes do not always amount to a straightforward critical promotion of lit- erary conventions associated with novelistic realism over those associated with experimental , modernist writing . Veit - Wild , for example ...
... critical essays , and five additional texts ) , the volume represented a breakthrough : such concentrat- ed , detailed critical attention had not been paid to a Zimbabwean writer before . But the mimetic critical tendency remains ...
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 |