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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... temporal characteristics is also taken into consideration , the bi - polar chronotope of Hove's text emerges as coercive , constricting and static : a frozen world . This ' frozenness ' is challenged by the guerrillas . They exist ...
... temporal designation marking the historical location of narrated time ( for example : ' 1850 – Birth of a Deaf - and - Dumb Child , ' or ' 1960 – Father ( the Hearer Hears ) ) . The chapters are not arranged in chronological order , but ...
... temporal demand . In this sense , they go beyond ' tears . ' The narratives I analyse bring into being space - times in which characters lack what may be termed certain basic spa- tio - temporal rights . In my reading , it is these ...
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 |