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| Introduction : writing against blindness | ||
| 1 | Coming to terms with violence : literature and the development of a public sphere in Zimbabwe | 3 |
| 2 | Incendiary interpretations and the patriotic imperative : the case of Flame | 25 |
| 3 | Marechera's wordhorde and the scrapiron of war | 41 |
| 4 | Against the corruption of language : the poetry of Chenjerai Hove | 57 |
| 5 | Ethnicity in literature of Shona and Ndebele expression | 75 |
| 6 | The poverty of theory in the study of Zimbabwean literature | 89 |
| 7 | Writing home : inscriptions of whiteness/ descriptions of belonging in white Zimbabwean memoir/autobiography | 103 |
| 8 | Children of resistance : childhood, history and the production of nationhood in two Zimbabwean novels | 119 |
| 9 | Self-representation and national memory : white autobiographies in Zimbabwe | 131 |
| 10 | 'Mind has mountains' : poetry and ecology in eastern Zimbabwe | 147 |
| 11 | The eye of the nation : reading ideology and genre in a Zimbabwean thriller | 161 |
| 12 | Inside the city : reassembling the township in Yvonne Vera's fiction | 177 |
| 13 | Some thoughts on history, memory and writing in Zimbabwe | 195 |
| 14 | Yvonne Vera : rewriting discourses of history and identity in Zimbabwe | 203 |
| 15 | Rule by historiography : the struggle over the past in contemporary Zimbabwe | 217 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Joseph Hudecek
reviewed Versions Of Zimbabwe on February 04, 2015
Versions Of Zimbabwe
Language can be a bridge from one way of thinking to another person's culture, which is what this book provides. It isn't about clever puns, riveting plot twists, or flowing descriptions, it's about a culture that you've most likely never seen, told through the eyes of a man who is watching it crumble into dust. The language is basic English, probably 6th grade or middle school level, but it provides a fascinating glimpse into an Africa that doesn't exist anymore. It doesn't romanticize it either. People are killed in ways that modern Western views still find barbaric, but it's just a fact of life for this tribe, a sacred law. The white men that come later do things that are just as barbaric, and some try to enforce civilization in a way that doesn't seem so bad. The point-of-view turn at the very end of the book makes it for me... I won't spoil it, but it made me want to scream with indignity for a culture that was squandered. This book will make you see Africa in a different way, and you'll be better for it.
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