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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 47
In his discussion of speech genres , Bakhtin states : “ Very frequently the expression of our utterance is determined ... Zimbabwean war novels are as constituting the specifically Zimbabwean ' macro - genre ' – a genre subsuming and ...
If Mutasa and Chipamuanga make use of the adventure novel genre , Mahamba's text may be related to the genre of popular romance , just like the work of the female settler novelist C.E. Dibb . In other war novels , however , narrative ...
24 In contrast , I would argue that a novelistic genre which reached its peak in the West precisely during the dominance of the ' stylistic formation ' of realism , could , in the Zimbabwean context , be taken as a symbol of resistance ...
What people are saying - Write a review
Contents
The Novel in a House of Stone | 13 |
Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction | 33 |
Writing against Rhodesian SpaceTime | 56 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
References to this book
Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema: Homeless at Home Inga Scharf No preview available - 2008 |