Reading Marechera
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2013
208 pages
978-1-78204-103-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Mushakavanhu Tinashe:
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is currently completing a book on the history of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair for Cambridge University Press.
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is currently completing a book on the history of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair for Cambridge University Press.
Content
Introduction: Marechera & the Outside - Grant Hamilton
A Brotherhood of Misfits: The Literary Anarchism of Dambudzo Marechera & Percy Bysshe Shelley - Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Blowing People's Minds: Anarchist Thought in Dambudzo Marechera's Mindblast - Anias Mutekwa
Grotesque Intimacies: Embodiment & the Spirit of Violence in 'House of Hunger' - Anna-Leena Toivanen
Tracing the Stain in Marechera's 'House of Hunger' - Grant Hamilton
Menippean Marechera - Bill Ashcroft
Black, But Not Fanon: Reading The Black Insider - David Huddart
The Avant-Garde Power of Black Sunlight: Radical Recontextualizations of Marechera from Darius James to China Miéville - Mark P. Williams
Classical Allusion in Marechera's Prose Works - Madhlozi Moyo
Revisiting 'The Servants' Ball' - Memory Chirere
Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact - Eddie Tay
A Brotherhood of Misfits: The Literary Anarchism of Dambudzo Marechera & Percy Bysshe Shelley - Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Blowing People's Minds: Anarchist Thought in Dambudzo Marechera's Mindblast - Anias Mutekwa
Grotesque Intimacies: Embodiment & the Spirit of Violence in 'House of Hunger' - Anna-Leena Toivanen
Tracing the Stain in Marechera's 'House of Hunger' - Grant Hamilton
Menippean Marechera - Bill Ashcroft
Black, But Not Fanon: Reading The Black Insider - David Huddart
The Avant-Garde Power of Black Sunlight: Radical Recontextualizations of Marechera from Darius James to China Miéville - Mark P. Williams
Classical Allusion in Marechera's Prose Works - Madhlozi Moyo
Revisiting 'The Servants' Ball' - Memory Chirere
Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact - Eddie Tay
