The Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, was regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius. Today, ten years after his death, his international reputation continues to grow not only as one of the most innovative writers Africa has produced but as an important voice in twentieth-century literature. This new book is the first collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera. Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells have brought together the work of scholars from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany ...
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The Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, was regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius. Today, ten years after his death, his international reputation continues to grow not only as one of the most innovative writers Africa has produced but as an important voice in twentieth-century literature. This new book is the first collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera. Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells have brought together the work of scholars from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and England to show the complexity and variety of responses which Marechera's writing evokes.Although he was impatient at the label African Writer, finding it prescriptive and constraining, Marechera engaged with Africa in everything which he wrote. He raged at the racism of the Rhodesia into which he was born and the arrogance, corruption and self-serving cultural nationalism of so many of Africa's post-independence governments: several essays draw attention to the political dimensions of his work. Above all, essay after essay demonstrate how Marechera's was an art directed towards the healing of society and individuals, both in Africa and throughout the world.
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