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They Called You Dambudzo
A Memoir
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Flora Veit-Wild
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature.
Author / Editor information
Veit-Wild Flora :
Flora Veit-Wild is Emerita Professor of African literatures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She lived in Harare/Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1993 and became known for her work on Zimbabwean literature and as literary executor and biographer of Dambudzo Marechera and a founder member of the Zimbabwe Women Writers. Her numerous publications include studies of body, madness, sexuality and gender in Anglophone and Francophone African writing as well as code-switching and linguistic innovation in Shona literature.
Reviews
Miho Kinnas:
This book is a personal biography: a biography of love between the writer lovers, told often in an intimate second person voice. What Flora Veit-Wild did to preserve Dambudzo Marechera's work was tremendous.
This book is a personal biography: a biography of love between the writer lovers, told often in an intimate second person voice. What Flora Veit-Wild did to preserve Dambudzo Marechera's work was tremendous.
After reading such an intense and passionate memoir so masterfully crafted and narrated by an accomplished literary critic, one can only recommend it most strongly to every lover of literature.
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PART ONE: TRAJECTORIES
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 6, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781800105553
Original publisher:
James Currey
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
300
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13 illus.
eBook ISBN:
9781800105553
Keywords for this book
Dambudzo Marechera; post-independent Zimbabwe; Vumba Mountains; Raffingora; Nurnberg; Wiesbaden; Zimbabwe Publishing House (ZPH); Charles Mungoshi; Stanley Nyamfukudza; Musaemura Zimunya; University of Zimbabwe; Lewis Nkosi; Harare International Book Fair; literary agency; literary legacy; interracial sexuality; HIV/AIDS; expatriates in Southern Africa; literary non-fiction; lifewriting; student revolt in West Berlin; Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland; Maoist expatriates; Marechera and children; Lake Mcllwaine; oil crisis in Zimbabwe in 1983; Marechera and Mugabe; second person narrative; New College Oxford; academic growth; scholarship and personal experience; sexuality and violence; Chimurenga; black ghetto in Rhodesia; honesty and courage in memoir writing; Sir William Hayter; the drunken poet; literary writing in a foreign language; Werner Kilian as German ambassador in Zimbabwe; split persona; inaugural lecture; miming with children; poetic modernism in Zimbabwe; death of a writer; lyrical prose
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
