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 the review , Zimunya could confidently assert the existence and importance of both the vernacular and Anglophone literary traditions in his country , and Mutswairo's place at the point of contact between the two .
I do not mean to state that there exist no valid and useful comparative statements about texts belonging to the three traditions . What I do mean to imply is a twofold absence . Firstly , critical studies referring to groups of novels ...
I would argue that this tradition is marked by a strengthening of aesthetic and socio - analytical functionality , and that it connects the Zimbabwean novel with the mainstream of the African literary - historical process .
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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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