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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... it did not undo this particular spatial aspect of the colonial system of inequalities . ( When it - finally did , this produced more inequalities , as I The Ambivalent Spaces of War: Shimmer Chinodya and Alexander Kanengoni.
... Alexander Kanengoni's Echoing Silences . 10 Their heroes are guerrillas and central parts of their narratives are situated in spaces con- taining armed conflict . I will therefore read them primarily as war novels , although this is not ...
... Alexander Kanengoni is a former combatant . Genres , says Bakhtin , must be fully mastered before we can manipulate them freely ; and once that has happened , it is the echo of the generic whole that resounds through each individual ...
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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The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe Ranka Primorac No preview available - 2006 |
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