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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14 Liz Gunner's statement that Bones fails to give its readers ' any clear sense of events in a specific time or place'15 is less true of Shadows and Ancestors . Even so , the combination in all three novels of orature - influenced ...
Combined with the uniform artificiality of the novel's language , the absence of change endows the world of Bones with an eerie sense of temporal stasis . By this I mean that the attempts to establish the exact temporal interlocking of ...
Their ordering in the text , however , eliminates from it any idea of personal emergence in the sense of linear progress . By the same token , the novel removes a sense of positive change ( the Bakhtinian national emergence ) from the ...
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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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