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Author : A. J. Chennells
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436459
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera written by A. J. Chennells and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius, Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is today, ten years after his death, considered to be one of the most innovative writers that Africa has produced. This new book is a collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera's work and includes contributions from academics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and the United Kingdom who show the complexity and variety of responses that Marechera's writing evokes.

Author : Annie Gagiano
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894108877
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achebe, Head, Marechera written by Annie Gagiano and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on issues of power and change, this analysis of texts by Chinua Achbe, Bessie Head and Dambudzi Marechera teases out each author's view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contributions of Africans to their malaise, and how many reacted in creative, progressive, pragmatic ways.

Author : Grant Hamilton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010628
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Marechera written by Grant Hamilton and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Considered one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers, the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright and essayist Dambudzo Marechera is read today as a significant voice in contemporary world literature. Marechera wrote ceaselessly against the status quo, against unqualified ideas, against expectation. He was an intellectual outsider who found comfort only in the company of other free-thinking writers - Shelley, Bakhtin, Apuleius, Fanon, Dostoyevsky, Tutuola. It is this universe of literary thought that one can see written into the fiction of Marechera that this collection of essays sets out to interrogate. In this important and timely contribution to African literarystudies, Grant Hamilton has gathered together essays of world-renowned, established, and young academics from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera's prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera's work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.

Author : Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000646548
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zimbabwean Maverick written by Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe’s history, Marechera witnessed the upheavals caused by different parties battling for power in the nation. Aware of the fact that all institutionalized narratives – whether they originated from the colonial governance of the UK, Ian Smith’s white minority regime, or Zimbabwe’s revolutionary parties – appeal to visions of a utopian society but reveal themselves to be fiction, Marechera imagined a unique utopia. For Marechera, utopia is not a static entity but a moment of perpetual change. He rethinks utopia by phrasing it as an ongoing event that ceaselessly contests institutionalized narratives of the postcolonial self and its relationship to society. Marechera writes towards a vision of an alternative future for the country. Yet, it is a vision that does not constitute a fully rounded sense of utopia. Being cautious about the world and the operation of power upon the people, rather than imposing his own utopian ideals, Marechera chooses instead to destabilize the narrative constitution of the self in relation to society in order to turn towards a truly radical utopian thinking that empowers the individual.

Author : Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dambudzo Marechera written by Flora Veit-Wild and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THIS VOLUME IS NOT MERELY THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BIOGRAPHY, BUT IS THE THING ITSELF."--CHOICE. "...THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY TO DATE OF DAMBUDZO MARECHERA, ZIMBABWE'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL WRITER...AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE GENERATION OF ZIMBABWEANS WHO GREW UP UNDER THE SMITH REGIME, EXPERIENCED THE LONELINESS OF EXILE, & RETURNED TO TASTE THE BITTER FRUITS OF INDEPENDENCE."--AFRICA TODAY. "...IT WILL LONG BE THE MAJOR SOURCE FOR ALL STUDENTS OF MARECHERA & IS A LASTING TRIBUTE TO HIM BY A LOVING & CARING FRIEND."--AFRICA TODAY. This documentary reader offers a well-researched portrait of the man & his contextbased on his own words & the writings of other scholars & reviewers. From the pen of Marechera are critical essays, extracts from letters, autobiographical material & diary notes, as well as several previously unpublished short stories & poems. Complementing this "self-portrait," are appraisals of his work by various critics, press reports, reviews & extracts from obituaries & tributes. This array of primary & secondary sources, gleaned from largely inaccessible publications & archives, provide a complex overview of this African intellectual. (DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH IN AFRICAN WRITTEN LITERATURE, 2)

Author : Diane Duane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380758524
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindblast written by Diane Duane and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Pattison
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Room for Cowardice written by David Pattison and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book engages with those major events but in the main concentrates on the writing. Marechera's extraordinary lifestyle has meant that much of the earlier criticism was about the man rather than the writing. This book aims to redress the balance and is the first full-length study of the Marecheran oeuvre to be published."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Siga Fatima Jagne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

Author : Keith Ammann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982171324
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a follow-up strategy guide with MOAR! monster tactics for Dungeon Masters playing fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Keith Ammann’s first book based on his popular blog, The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, unpacks strategies, tactics, and motivations for creatures found in the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Now, in MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, he analyzes the likely combat behaviors of more than 100 new enemies found in Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Your campaign will never be the same!

Author : Julie Cairnie
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902158
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Spirit written by Julie Cairnie and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection inspired by the life and work of the Zimbabwean cult writer Dambudzo Marechera demonstrates the growing influence of this author among writers, artists and scholars worldwide and invites the reassessment of his oeuvre and of categories of literary theory such as modernism and postcolonialism.