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Sign and taboo : perspectives on the poetic fiction of Yvonne Vera
- Title
- Sign and taboo : perspectives on the poetic fiction of Yvonne Vera / edited by Robert Muponde and Mandivavarira Maodzwa-Taruvinga.
- Publication
- Harare [Zimbabwe] : Weaver Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2003.
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- Description
- xvi, 236 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236).
- Contents
- Language, voice, and presence in Under the tongue and Without a name / Kizito Z. Muchemwa -- A river in my mouth : writing the voice in Under the tongue / Meg Samuelson -- The habit of assigning meaning / Carolyn Martin Shaw -- Imaginary snapshots : cinematic techniques in the writing of Yvonne Vera / Jane Bryce -- The voice of cloth : interior dialogues and exterior skins / Jessica Hemmings -- Language, kwela music, and modernity in Butterfly burning / Lizzy Attree -- A woman speaks of rivers : generation and sexuality in Yvonne Vera's novels / Carolyn Martin Shaw -- Re-membering the body : rape and recovery in Without a name and Under the tongue / Meg Samuelson -- Iron butterflies : notes on Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Ranka Primorac -- Without a name : reclaiming that which has been taken / Ruth Lavelle -- The sight of the dead body : dystopia as resistance in Vera's Without a name / Robert Muponde -- Spirit possession and the paradox of postcolonial resistance in Yvonne Vera's Nehanda / Maurice T. Vambe -- Re-mapping the colonial space : Yvonne Vera's Nehanda / Khombe Mangwanda -- History, gender, and the problem of representation in the novels of Yvonne Vera / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- A comparative analysis of Solomon Mutswairo's and Yvonne Vera's handling of the legend of Nehanda / Emmanuel Chiwome -- Between the pause and the waiting : the struggle against time in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Violet Bridget Lunga -- History has its ceiling : the pressures of the past in The stone virgins / Terence Ranger.
- Call Number
- Sc D 03-2531
- ISBN
- 1779220049 (Weaver Press)
- 0852555849 (J. Currey)
- 0779220049 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 51115351
- Title
- Sign and taboo : perspectives on the poetic fiction of Yvonne Vera / edited by Robert Muponde and Mandivavarira Maodzwa-Taruvinga.
- Imprint
- Harare [Zimbabwe] : Weaver Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236).
- Added Author
- Muponde, Robert.Maodzwa-Taruvinga, Mandivavarira.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 03-2531