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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... described as discursive blueprints which aspire to generate and underlie all socially produced meanings . They seek to gov- ern all those who are exposed to them , and to become a new form of ' com- mon sense ' . Master fictions ...
... described as any other kind of ' progress ' – although it in effect dismantles the con- cept of absolute difference between ' African ' rural and ' European ' urban spaces established by the likes of The Iron Trek and still discernible ...
... described in the narrative . At the beginning of chapter four , the contents of Maiguru's house are described with the benefit of hindsight , and the narrator points out that they were not as palatial as they seemed to her younger self ...
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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