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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... figure . Narrative figures are bun- dles of what Peleš calls sememes - the smallest units of novelistic mean- ing.87 There are two kinds of sememes : semantic nuclei ( names , key words or phrases ) and attributes grouped around them ...
... figure ' post - independence time ' derives part of its meaning from the link to the key figure of existence African culture , ' which , in turn , is linked to the group figure African women ' partly through the attribute ' resilience ...
... figures and the links between them . 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 ...
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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