The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern ZimbabweThis book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which links the book to the topical Zimbabwean issue of land. |
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69 G. Ndhlala, Jikinya (Harare, College Press in Association with the Literature
Bureau, 1984 [1979]). 70 G. Kahari, 'Intellectual and Social Development in
Bernard Chidzero's Nyyengamutswairo,' in Aspects of the Shona Nove and Other
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69 G. Ndhlala, Jikinya (Harare, College Press in Association with the Literature
Bureau, 1984 [1979]). 70 G. Kahari, 'Intellectual and Social Development in
Bernard Chidzero's Nyyengamutswairo,' in Aspects of the Shona Nove and Other
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Armstrong, P., The Last Movie (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1981).
Armstrong, P., The Iron Trek (Salisbury, Welston Press, 1978). Armstrong, P., The
Pegasus Man (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1983). Burton, L., The Yellow
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Armstrong, P., The Last Movie (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1981).
Armstrong, P., The Iron Trek (Salisbury, Welston Press, 1978). Armstrong, P., The
Pegasus Man (Borrowdale [Harare], Welston Press, 1983). Burton, L., The Yellow
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Hove, C, Bones (Harare, Baobab Books, 1994). Hove, C. Shadows (Harare,
Baobab Books, 1991). Kala, V., Waste Not Your Tears (Harare, Baobab Books,
1994). Kanengoni, A., Echoing Silences (Harare, Baobab Books, 1997).
Kanengoni, A.
Hove, C, Bones (Harare, Baobab Books, 1994). Hove, C. Shadows (Harare,
Baobab Books, 1991). Kala, V., Waste Not Your Tears (Harare, Baobab Books,
1994). Kanengoni, A., Echoing Silences (Harare, Baobab Books, 1997).
Kanengoni, A.
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Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe |
| Author | Ranka Primorac |
| Publisher | I. B. Tauris, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1845111206, 9781845111205 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / African |
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