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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The article differentiates between realistic ' and ' textual readings of narratives . 14 Acknowledging that reading with a pre - established assumption that the work is a whole , that it is coherent and well - structured , has now come ...
Thus , isolating the dominant function of a fictional text is predicated on reading for novelness19 - novelness ( or wholeness " ) here understood as a version of Bal's ' textuality . ' Reading for function , then ( or , as I'll argue ...
Ironically , despite his consistent reiteration of the dialogic nature of reading , Peleš formulated his own theory of ' novelness ' in a hermetic , convoluted style , and by means of original , but dense and complex , sets of technical ...
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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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