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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This links her to 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 .
where Nehanda intrudes on bats ' space in a forest cave ) , or abstract . In chapter thirteen , Mr Browning sums up his civilisation's relationship to space by saying : We have drawn maps , and know how to locate ourselves on the globe ...
In Nehanda , the invading whites are confronted by a united African community . This encompasses both the living and the dead and spans both the physical and the spiritual spatio - temporal dimensions . This unity is made possible by ...
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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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