Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera. edited by Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells

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PR9390.9 EME

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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

Summary: "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."-

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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."-

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