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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In The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism , Bakhtin presents a historical typology of what he calls novels of emergence . His observations are relevant here because he does not base them only on compositional ...
Harvest of Thorns is , I would argue , a story of both personal and national emergence . As I indicated in my discussion of Nervous Conditions , “ emergence ' is a key concept in M. M. Bakhtin's typology of the Bildungsroman and related ...
... a double ( individual and national ) emergence that Bakhtin describes as the most important type of Bildungsroman ( as ... of such a double emergence : no young person in any of the novels is shown emerging ' along with the world .
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Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime | 56 |
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