Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera.
Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera.
edited by Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells
- xix, 355 pages : illustrations , 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical records and index
Preface ix (2)
Dennis Brutus
Introduction: The Man Who Betrayed Africa? xi
Anthony Chennells
Flora Veit-Wild
PART I: THE DISSIDENT NARRATOR 3 (72)
Transgressing Traditional Narrative Form
3 (20)
Drew Shaw
Knocking on the Door of the House of Hunger: Fracturing Narratives and Disordering Identity
23 (20)
Laurice Taitz
Unstable Identities, Unstable Narratives in Black Sunlight
43 (14)
Anthony Chennells
Black Sunlight: Exploding Dichotomies -- A Language Terrorist At Work
57 (18)
Mark Stein
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL TRAVESTIES 75 (46)
Marechera's Politic Body: The Menippeanism of a "Lost Generation" in Africa?
75 (18)
Gerald Gaylard
Carnival and Hybridity in Marechera and Lesego Rampolokeng
93 (12)
Flora Veit-Wild
Kariba's Fall: A Short Story
105 (16)
Robert Fraser
PART III: "HEAVEN'S TERRIBLE ECSTASY": READING MARECHERA'S POETRY 121 (42)
The Outsider Within: Marginality as Symptom in Marechera's "Throne of Bayonets"
121 (16)
Dirk Klopper
Resistance and Affirmation: Marechera's "My Arms Vanished Mountains"
137 (14)
T.O. McLoughlin
Danger! Stay Away from Meaningless Poems!
151 (12)
Nhamo Mhiripiri
PART IV: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN SELF 163 (86)
Fictional Autobiographies or Autobiographical Fictions?
163 (14)
Laurice Taitz
Melissa Levin
The Slow Sound of his Tongue: Speech Impediments and Political Impediments in Marechera's Work
177 (16)
Robert Fraser
The Search for the Primordial I in the Novels Black Sunlight and The Black Insider
193 (16)
David Pattison
A Black Insider: The Man Walking Away From His Shadow
209 (12)
Patrizia Perocchio
Inside/out: Body and Sexuality in Marechera's Fiction
221 (14)
Jane Bryce
Black and White from Rhodesia: Memories of Dambudzo
235 (14)
Peter Harvey
PART V: SMASHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE UNIVERSE 249 (66)
Jumping on the Bandwagon of Oppression: A Book Review
249 (2)
Dambudzo Marechera
Scrapiron Blues: My Book of the Year
251 (2)
Wole Soyinka
Reconstructing Childhood: Social Banditry in Marechera's Children's Stories
253 (12)
Robert Muponde
Down and Out in London and Harare: Marechera's Subversion of "African Literature"
265 (18)
Stewart Crehan
Traces of Tradition: The Probability of the Marecheran Manfish
283 (16)
Grant Lilford
"In Search of my True People": Universal Humanism in Marechera's Writing
299 (16)
Daniela Volk
EPILOGUE Taking Resentment for Wisdom: A Posthumous Conversation Between Marechera, N.H. Brettell and George Grosz 315 (18)
Dan Wylie
Bibliography 333 (10)
Contributors 343 (4)
Index 347
"The Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, was regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius. Today, ten years after his death, his international reputation continues to grow not only as one of the most innovative writers Africa has produced but as an important voice in twentieth-century literature. This new book is the first collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera. Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells have brought together the work of scholars from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and England to show the complexity and variety of responses which Marechera's writing evokes."-
9780865436459
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Marechera, Dambudzo
Literature
PR9390.9 EME
Includes bibliographical records and index
Preface ix (2)
Dennis Brutus
Introduction: The Man Who Betrayed Africa? xi
Anthony Chennells
Flora Veit-Wild
PART I: THE DISSIDENT NARRATOR 3 (72)
Transgressing Traditional Narrative Form
3 (20)
Drew Shaw
Knocking on the Door of the House of Hunger: Fracturing Narratives and Disordering Identity
23 (20)
Laurice Taitz
Unstable Identities, Unstable Narratives in Black Sunlight
43 (14)
Anthony Chennells
Black Sunlight: Exploding Dichotomies -- A Language Terrorist At Work
57 (18)
Mark Stein
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL TRAVESTIES 75 (46)
Marechera's Politic Body: The Menippeanism of a "Lost Generation" in Africa?
75 (18)
Gerald Gaylard
Carnival and Hybridity in Marechera and Lesego Rampolokeng
93 (12)
Flora Veit-Wild
Kariba's Fall: A Short Story
105 (16)
Robert Fraser
PART III: "HEAVEN'S TERRIBLE ECSTASY": READING MARECHERA'S POETRY 121 (42)
The Outsider Within: Marginality as Symptom in Marechera's "Throne of Bayonets"
121 (16)
Dirk Klopper
Resistance and Affirmation: Marechera's "My Arms Vanished Mountains"
137 (14)
T.O. McLoughlin
Danger! Stay Away from Meaningless Poems!
151 (12)
Nhamo Mhiripiri
PART IV: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN SELF 163 (86)
Fictional Autobiographies or Autobiographical Fictions?
163 (14)
Laurice Taitz
Melissa Levin
The Slow Sound of his Tongue: Speech Impediments and Political Impediments in Marechera's Work
177 (16)
Robert Fraser
The Search for the Primordial I in the Novels Black Sunlight and The Black Insider
193 (16)
David Pattison
A Black Insider: The Man Walking Away From His Shadow
209 (12)
Patrizia Perocchio
Inside/out: Body and Sexuality in Marechera's Fiction
221 (14)
Jane Bryce
Black and White from Rhodesia: Memories of Dambudzo
235 (14)
Peter Harvey
PART V: SMASHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE UNIVERSE 249 (66)
Jumping on the Bandwagon of Oppression: A Book Review
249 (2)
Dambudzo Marechera
Scrapiron Blues: My Book of the Year
251 (2)
Wole Soyinka
Reconstructing Childhood: Social Banditry in Marechera's Children's Stories
253 (12)
Robert Muponde
Down and Out in London and Harare: Marechera's Subversion of "African Literature"
265 (18)
Stewart Crehan
Traces of Tradition: The Probability of the Marecheran Manfish
283 (16)
Grant Lilford
"In Search of my True People": Universal Humanism in Marechera's Writing
299 (16)
Daniela Volk
EPILOGUE Taking Resentment for Wisdom: A Posthumous Conversation Between Marechera, N.H. Brettell and George Grosz 315 (18)
Dan Wylie
Bibliography 333 (10)
Contributors 343 (4)
Index 347
"The Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, was regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius. Today, ten years after his death, his international reputation continues to grow not only as one of the most innovative writers Africa has produced but as an important voice in twentieth-century literature. This new book is the first collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera. Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells have brought together the work of scholars from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and England to show the complexity and variety of responses which Marechera's writing evokes."-
9780865436459
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Marechera, Dambudzo
Literature
PR9390.9 EME