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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... Nehanda and the ancestral spirits . In the seventh section of Bones , the voice of Ambuya Nehanda sketches the history of the colonial conquest and the first Chimurenga , and calls for another uprising . Nehanda is a mhondoro , a Shona ...
... Nehanda ( on whom the novel is ' centred ' ) and Kaguvi have direct access . This is the world's non - physical dimension , across the boundary between life and death . As it has been pointed out in the discussions of Hove and Kanengoni ...
... Nehanda . By mediating between the community and the ancestral spirits , Nehanda opens up the space of war : the people attack the settlers in the hills , where they have intervened into the landscape in order to turn it into a fortress ...
Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime 56 | 56 |
Copyright | |
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