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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two ) , the place where family members go to prepare for the ambivalent homestead wedding ( chapter eight ) , and where Maiguru insists on buying food for Tambu to take to the convent ( chapter ten ) . Salisbury , the capital , is even ...
In chapter nine , we learn that Zimbabwean independence was unimaginable twenty years before the time of narration . ( Z , 167 ) . All this is not enough to situate the narrative precisely in temporal terms .
In chapter seventeen ( describing physical and political training novice guerrillas receive in a camp in Mozambique ) , the narrative voice switches from the third person to a de - personalised ' you ' ( ' Days passed and weeks passed ...
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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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