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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... Chenjerai Hove's Bones , she comes close to aligning herself with Zhuwarara's position when she writes : ' [ Hove ] does not acknowledge the changes in society , the disruptions and the contradictions in people's lives as reflected in ...
... and drawn conclusions from , Hove's handling of the English language . In this , too , his work stands out within Zimbabwean Anglophone fiction , and this is perhaps one of The Dead are Loved in a Different Way: Chenjerai Hove.
... Chenjerai Hove continue to regard ritu- alised evocations of the dead as expressions of welcome communal / national unity . But Hove's works also depart from ' tradition ' in that they endow ancestral voices with the function of ...
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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