| Physical description |
1 online resource (x, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 3, 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index. |
| 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. |
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8 Classical Allusion in Marechera's Prose Works9 Revisiting 'The Servants' Ball'; 10 Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact; Bibliography; Index; Backcover. |
| 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. |
| Other author |
Hamilton, Grant, editor.
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| Subject |
Marechera, Dambudzo -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN |
9781782041030 (electronic bk.) |
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1782041036 (electronic bk.) |
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9781847010629 (paperback) |
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1847010628 (paperback) |
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