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Moving spirit : the legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st century

Title: Moving spirit : the legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st century / edited by Julie Cairnie, Dobrota Pucherova.
Publication: Berlin : Lit ; London : Global [distributor], 2012.

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Description

216 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

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.

Series Statement

African languages, African literatures = Langues africaines, littératures africaines ; v. 4

Uniform Title

African languages, African literatures ; v. 4.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prologue: Dambudzo Marechera - long live! / Elleke Boehmer -- Dambudzo [poem] / Comrade Fatso -- House of Hunger [poem] / Comrade Fatso -- Bits and pieces I picked up and pocketed / Jane Bryce -- Kariba's last stand / Robert Fraser -- Lake Mellwaine : a short story / Flora Veit-Wild -- Marechera the performer : adapting Marechera's fiction for the stage / Dobrota Pucherova -- Filming The house of hunger and Zimbabwe now / Chris Austin -- Litera(ri)ly laterally : re-visioning Marechera for educational films / heeten bhagat -- The twilight zone of literature / Nana Oforiatta-Ayim -- Why I want to tell Dambudzo's story / Ery Nzaramba -- A letter to departed buddy [poem] / Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri -- Marechera in Oxford / Norman Vance -- Reflecting on the Marechera cult? : "more like hearing a scream" / James Currey -- Hippo and hyena : my Oxford celebration diary / Flora Veit-Wild -- Spirits and projections : a "white Zimbabwean's reading of Marechera / Jennifer F. Armstrong -- Marechera-mania among young Zimbabwean writers and readers / Memory Chirere -- Cult figure and pub legend : dialoguing on The legacy of St. Dambudzo / Anna-Leena Toivanen and Tinashe Mushakavanhu -- A "postmodern" at the margin : innovations in Dambudzo Marechera's texts / Carolyn Hart -- "House of fools" : madness and the state of the nation in Marechera's The House of Hunger (1978) and Ignatius Mabasa's Mupenzi (1999) / Katja Kellerer -- "A melodrama of the voluptuous" : Marechera's love poetry / Gerald Gaylard -- Fuzzy Goo's stories for children : literature for a "new" Zimbabwe? / Julie Cairnie -- Afterword: Me and Dambudzo : a personal essay / Flora Veit-Wild.

Call Number

Sc E 13-680

ISBN

9783643902153 (pbk.)
3643902158 (pbk.)

LCCN

2012449683

OCLC

783000146

Title

Moving spirit : the legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st century / edited by Julie Cairnie, Dobrota Pucherova.

Imprint

Berlin : Lit ; London : Global [distributor], 2012.

Series

African languages, African literatures = Langues africaines, littératures africaines ; v. 4

African languages, African literatures ; v. 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Cairnie, Julie.

Pucherová, Dobrota Al̆zbeta, 1977-

Research Call Number

Sc E 13-680

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