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The place of tears : the novel and politics in modern Zimbabwe /
This book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which links the book to the topical Zimbabwean issue of land.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2006.
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| Colección: | International library of African studies ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction: Zimbabwean Writing and 'the Crisis'; 1. The Novel in a House of Stone; 2. Modes of Reading Zimbabwean Fiction; 3. Writing against Rhodesian Space-Time; 4. The Dead are Loved in a Different Way:Chenjerai Hove; 5. Stories of the Unsaid: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Nozipo Maraire; 6. The Ambivalent Spaces of the War: Shimmer Chinodya and Alexander Kanengoni; 7. Crossing into the Space-Time of Memory: Yvonne Vera; 8. Beyond Tears; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index of Names.