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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novella Woman in Struggle , mentioned in Chapter Two . Written by a former combatant and published in 1984 , Woman in Struggle tells a story in many respects remarkably similar to that of Nervous Conditions .
HT , 130 ) .39 In chapter 21 , the guerrillas ' presence in Rhodesia is registered through the eyes of a series of characters they encounter : an old woman in the bush , a local businessman , a foreman on a white - owned farm .
directs the telling of it , thus imposing some order on the spatio - temporal structure of his existence ( ^ “ There is another woman that I keep seeing . Who is she ? ” ? - ES , 66 ) . Zimbabwean novels differ in their semantic ...
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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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