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 leaving the farm , Marita demonstrates a faith in the possibility of change implied in the word ' independence , and initiates change herself . It is as if she is testing the Rhodesian chronotope , to see if it is still in place .
Nyasha , on the other hand , ' knew nothing of leaving . She had only been taken to places . ' ( NC , 173 ) The same can be said of Maiguru , who went to England with a husband who ' did not want to leave the mission ' in the first ...
The first is of the arrival of a man , Cephas Dube , in Kezi , his brief love affair with Thenjiwe , and his leaving for Bulawayo . The second , told partly in flashback , is the story of Sibaso ...
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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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