The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern ZimbabweThis book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which links the book to the topical Zimbabwean issue of land. |
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Page 67
The construction of colonial boundaries involved erasing from the land all traces
of natives, as well as separating their bodies from the spaces that they inhabited.
This was done in the first instance conceptually (through the European ...
The construction of colonial boundaries involved erasing from the land all traces
of natives, as well as separating their bodies from the spaces that they inhabited.
This was done in the first instance conceptually (through the European ...
Page 74
In particular, the question of the ownership of commercial agricultural land, which
remained largely in the hands of white commercial farmers despite being the key
point of mobilisation during the liberation struggle, remained a part of the ...
In particular, the question of the ownership of commercial agricultural land, which
remained largely in the hands of white commercial farmers despite being the key
point of mobilisation during the liberation struggle, remained a part of the ...
Page 95
In the land of Gotami, Johana is noted for her capacity for hard work (see section
one [10]), her closeness to the land (pesticide, which kills her, is also killing the
land), her respect for the customs of Gotami's people, in which she instructs
Marko ...
In the land of Gotami, Johana is noted for her capacity for hard work (see section
one [10]), her closeness to the land (pesticide, which kills her, is also killing the
land), her respect for the customs of Gotami's people, in which she instructs
Marko ...
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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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African Literature Alexander Kanengoni Ancestors axiological Bakhtin Bakhtinian Baobab Books Bildungsroman Bones boundaries Bulawayo Butterfly Burning chapter characters Chenjerai Hove Chennells Chimurenga Chinodya Chiwome colonial construction context critical cultural Dambudzo Marechera Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions discourse discussed Echoing Silences Emerging Perspectives emphasis added English Flaker gender genre guerrilla Gweru Harare Harvest of Thorns House of Hunger Hove's Ibid identity ideological independence intertextual Janifa Johana Kanengoni Kezi land Lefebvre literary Mambo Press Marita Modern Zimbabwe Munashe Muponde narrative narrator nationalist Ndebele Nehanda Nervous Conditions Novel and Politics novelistic Peles Place of Tears Politics in Modern post-independence postcolonial pre-independence Primorac published reading refers Rhodesian chronotope Rhodesian Novel Robert Mugabe rural semantic settler settler novel Shimmer Chinodya Shona social space-time spatial spatio-temporal Stone Virgins story Tambu temporal texts textual tion University of Zimbabwe Veit-Wild voice women writing Yvonne Vera's Zen^ele Zimbabwe's Zimbabwean fiction Zimbabwean Literature Zimbabwean novels
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| Title | The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe |
| Author | Ranka Primorac |
| Publisher | I. B. Tauris, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1845111206, 9781845111205 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / African |
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