The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern ZimbabweThis book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which links the book to the topical Zimbabwean issue of land. |
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In 1979, Musaemura Zimunya - a black Rhodesian postgraduate student at the
University of Kent in Canterbury, on his way to becoming one of the most
prominent poets and literary critics of independent Zimbabwe - published a
review of the ...
In 1979, Musaemura Zimunya - a black Rhodesian postgraduate student at the
University of Kent in Canterbury, on his way to becoming one of the most
prominent poets and literary critics of independent Zimbabwe - published a
review of the ...
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... on what is arguably an epistemological affinity between these two non-Western
contexts, brought about by the ambivalent role of the nation and the importance
of materialist/revolutionary thought in the development of their literary cultures.
... on what is arguably an epistemological affinity between these two non-Western
contexts, brought about by the ambivalent role of the nation and the importance
of materialist/revolutionary thought in the development of their literary cultures.
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My approach is informed by the concept of literary function, as formulated by Jan
Mukarovsky* and applied historically by the Croatian critic Aleksandar Flaker in
his 1976 book Stilske formacje [Stylistic Formations].1 In section three below, ...
My approach is informed by the concept of literary function, as formulated by Jan
Mukarovsky* and applied historically by the Croatian critic Aleksandar Flaker in
his 1976 book Stilske formacje [Stylistic Formations].1 In section three below, ...
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Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe |
| Author | Ranka Primorac |
| Publisher | I. B. Tauris, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1845111206, 9781845111205 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / African |
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