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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... written of how ' the academic practice of interpretation , linked with journalism and other more popular forms of interpretation through a common ideology and often even through shared personnel , can be a form of censorship in itself ...
... writing activity and an interest in Zimbabwe's written literary heritage , there is a sense in which academic research into the three novelistic groupings has itself remained divided . The Place of Tears : The Novel and Politics in ...
... written war , ' and has thus inevitably changed the way in which the ' real war ' is remembered , and may be thought and written about . Never again will a Zimbabwean narrative of any kind seeking to represent any war as uncomplicatedly ...
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 |