Reading Marechera /
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, agai...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
James Currey,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 se. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 3, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782041030 1782041036 |
