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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Page 35
Peles's solution is Bakhtinian: for him, novelistic meaning is both an intertextual
and an interpersonal construct. In the Zimbabwean context, Pelesian concepts
may therefore be used to counter/ supplement a cluster of analogous critical ...
Peles's solution is Bakhtinian: for him, novelistic meaning is both an intertextual
and an interpersonal construct. In the Zimbabwean context, Pelesian concepts
may therefore be used to counter/ supplement a cluster of analogous critical ...
Page 36
In the early pages of 'Discourse and the Novel', he refers to social languages
entering (i.e. crossing the boundary of, or being represented inside) novels.7 He
then explicitly equates the notion of novelistic (stylistic) unity with the notion of '
the ...
In the early pages of 'Discourse and the Novel', he refers to social languages
entering (i.e. crossing the boundary of, or being represented inside) novels.7 He
then explicitly equates the notion of novelistic (stylistic) unity with the notion of '
the ...
Page 50
A novel's substance of content may be drawn from other linguistic texts - fictional (
novelistic and non-novelistic, written and oral) and non- fictional - as well as from
non-linguistic texts, lived experience or any combination of these. One of the ...
A novel's substance of content may be drawn from other linguistic texts - fictional (
novelistic and non-novelistic, written and oral) and non- fictional - as well as from
non-linguistic texts, lived experience or any combination of these. One of the ...
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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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