The Rise of the Shona Novel
Author: George P. Kahari
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
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These Bones Will Rise Again
Author: Panashe Chigumadzi
Publisher: Mood Indigo
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781999683306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the right questions to ask when seeking out the spirit of a nation? In November, 2017, the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from more than 30 years of Robert Mugabe's rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir, and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the "coup that was not a coup," the telling of history and manipulation of time and the ancestral spirts of two women--her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation.
The Rise of the African Novel
Author: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 047205368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
House of Stone
Author: Christina Lamb
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1556527357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the lives of two very different Zimbabweans--Nigel Hough, a wealthy white farmer, and Aqui, his poor black nanny--from the 1970s to 2002, focusing how both were affected by Zimbabwe's brutal civil war and its aftermath.
Imagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English
Author: M.-T. Bindella
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9004503072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English brings together the proceedings of a symposium organised by the editors at the University of Trento in 1990. At a time when the study of the post-colonial literatures is gaining more widespread recognition, scholars based mainly at universities in Italy and Germany were invited to address the manner in which writers are giving literary expression to the complexity of contemporary post-colonial and multicultural societies and to consider, from their differing perspectives on the new literatures, central questions of formal experimentation, linguistic innovation, social and political commitment, textual theory and cross-culturality. Focusing on such major writers such as Achebe, Soyinka and Walcott, as well as on lesser-known figures such as Jack Davis, Witi Ihimaera, Rohinton Mistry and Manohar Malgonkar, the contributors take up many themes characteristic of the new literatures: the challenge posed to traditional authority, the expression of national identity, the role of literature in the liberation struggle, modes of literary practice in multicultural societies; the relationship of the new literatures in English to that of the former metropolitan centre; and the complex intertextuality characterizing much of the literary production of post-colonial societies.
Zimbabwean Literature in African Languages
Author: Emmanuel Chiwome
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0797447326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe scope of this book is Ndebele and Shona literature, with emphasis on post-independence publications. African literature in English has received more critical attention than literature in indigenous languages. The former has occupied centre stage as representing national literature, while modern literature in indigenous languages= occupies the intermediate lower stratum that is accorded to national languages in the colonial and post= independence eras. The objective of the study is to combine some of the different genres of literature in indigenous languages in an attempt to understand them on the basis of their common history and culture. While colonialism has promoted and interpreted differences among Zimbabwean ethnic communities as evidence of polarisation, the authors here view African language literatures as parts of one great whole.
Competing on the Edge
Author: Shona L. Brown
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780875847542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn their startling new book, authors Brown and Eisenhardt contend that to prosper in today's fiercely competitive business environments, a new paradigm--competing on the edge--must be implemented as a new survival strategy. This book focuses on specific management dilemmas and illustrates solutions that work when the name of the game is change.
From Text to Practice
Author: Joachim Kügler
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 3863091310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNames Fashioned by Gender
Author: Thenjiwe Meyiwa
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 100381283X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNames are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics—a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names. The study of naming potentially provides significant evidence about the role of gender in the assimilation and/or enculturation processes as personal names evoke insight into the construction of gender and personhood in African societies. The book takes intellectual course from the idea that how names are viewed and used is heavily context-dependent and gendered. It demonstrates that personal names are narratives derived from different contexts within various cultures and circumstances subsequently imposing different identities on name bearers. Through persuasive essays, this book elucidates that naming is an activity that needs to be conducted cautiously because names tend to determine the destiny and character of an individual. Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Writing and Africa
Author: Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1315505150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.
