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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... struggle and the ideal of national and cultural liberation . Writers ' achievement was measured in terms of their texts ' perceived proximity to this goal ; that is to say , the relative ' correctness ' of their style and ' vision.
Arguably , the cultures and literatures of central and eastern European nations that Flaker discusses resemble African ... That means that their nationalist / cultural elites were simultaneously aware of the possibility of striving for ...
7 On literature as cultural memory in the Southern African context , see J. Crewe , ' Recalling Adamastor . ... Acts of Memory : Cultural Recall in the Present ( Hanover , University Press of New England , 1999 ) , pp . 75-86 .
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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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