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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Peleš's solution is Bakhtinian : for him , novelistic meaning is both an intertextual and an interpersonal construct . In the Zimbabwean context , Pelešian concepts may therefore be used to counter / supplement a cluster of analogous ...
He then explicitly equates the notion of novelistic ( stylistic ) unity with the notion of the work as a whole ' : These heterogeneous stylistic unities , upon entering the novel , combine to form a structured artistic system , and are ...
A novel's substance of content may be drawn from other linguistic texts – fictional ( novelistic and non - novelistic , written and oral ) and nonfictional - as well as from non - linguistic texts , lived experience or any combination ...
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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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