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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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
James Currey,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Marechera & the Outside; 1 A Brotherhood of Misfits: The Literary Anarchism of Dambudzo Marechera & Percy Bysshe Shelley; 2 Blowing People's Minds: Anarchist Thought in Dambudzo Marechera's Mindblast; 3 Grotesque Intimacies: Embodiment & the Spirit of Violence in 'House of Hunger'; 4 Tracing the Stain in Marechera's 'House of Hunger'; 5 Menippean Marechera; 6 Black but not Fanon: Reading The Black Insider; 7 The Avant-Garde Power of Black Sunlight: Radical Recontextualizations of Marechera from Darius James to China Miéville.
- 8 Classical Allusion in Marechera's Prose Works9 Revisiting 'The Servants' Ball'; 10 Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.
