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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... calls the basic semantic unit the novelistic equivalent of the Leibnizian complete concept - a narrative figure . ... this means that they are isolated ( and a hierarchy of narrative figures is gradually constructed ) by readers as ...
Each narrative figure is as unique as the fictional world it helps bring into being ; no figure can be exactly repeated ... I had in mind Pelešian narrative figures , and mentioned characters , social groups and narrative spacetime as ...
This is particularly true of figures of existence , since they are derived from figures at the other two levels . The figure ' the space - time of memory , for example , that I use in discussing Yvonne Vera's work in Chapter Seven ...
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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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