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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... In choosing narrative displacement as my focus of interest , I am not refer- ring to it as a literary ' theme ' or ' motif , ' nor as an event that novels simply lift from non - literary life . ' I will CHAPTER ONE 31.
... simply the mani- festation of a phantom that is trying to rise again after being slain by the heroic children of the Zimbabwean rev- olution . The only thing that camouflages and confuses many is that in this attempt to rise , the ...
... simply disappear after independence . For the Shona , the appearance of a ngozi is a consequence of unjust and evil acts : 49 This novel unequivocally points at the war of national liberation as a source of evil . It locates the evil in ...
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 |