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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Narrative figures are bundles of what Peles calls sememes - the smallest units of
novelistic meaning.87 There are two kinds of sememes: semantic nuclei (names,
key words or phrases) and attributes grouped around them. Attributes are a ...
Narrative figures are bundles of what Peles calls sememes - the smallest units of
novelistic meaning.87 There are two kinds of sememes: semantic nuclei (names,
key words or phrases) and attributes grouped around them. Attributes are a ...
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Each narrative figure is as unique as the fictional world it helps bring into being;
no figure can be exactly repeated in different novelistic texts.89 When, on page
fourteen in Chapter One, I referred to the 'separation of [novelistic] semantic ...
Each narrative figure is as unique as the fictional world it helps bring into being;
no figure can be exactly repeated in different novelistic texts.89 When, on page
fourteen in Chapter One, I referred to the 'separation of [novelistic] semantic ...
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Novelistic narratives, in other words, construct their own versions of the stubborn
(social) simultaneities that Soja talks about, rather than - as mimetic readings of
fiction would have it - merely reflecting them. This means that what was said ...
Novelistic narratives, in other words, construct their own versions of the stubborn
(social) simultaneities that Soja talks about, rather than - as mimetic readings of
fiction would have it - merely reflecting them. This means that what was said ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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