· Living as a tramp-writer in London's squats and parks, he wrote Black Sunlight(Heinemann, ), and Black Insider (published posthumously in ), even more experimental works that irreverently parodied African nationalist, Marxist and racial identifications, because he recognized that notions of an essential African identity were being invoked to authorize . November UK Paperback. Title: Black Sunlight (African Writers Series) Author (s): Dambudzo Marechera. ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Pearson Education Limited. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU. Author: Dambudzo Marechera. · Summary. Summary. This paper examines Black Sunlight (), a novel by Dambudzo Marechera, in the light of critical reappraisal of narratives of national resistance in the s in Zimbabwe. Black Sunlight was published in , the year of Zimbabwe's independence when most black Zimbabweans viewed the coming of that independence as the vindication of Nehanda's Cited by: 2.
respect Marechera seeks not only to recognise, along with Chris in Black Sunlight, "the other side of the question" but to actually render this other side, or any other side, the question being not manichean but in fact infinitely multifarious. The thread I intend to follow in my delving into Marechera's fiction is that. Black Sunlight - Dambudzo Marechera Sale price Price R Regular price Unit price / per In an unspecified setting, the stream-of-consciousness narrative of this cult novel traces the fortunes of a group of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist capitalist opposition. By comparison, Black Sunlight had very few of these qualities and was a struggle to read. The novel focuses on a photojournalist named Christian whose life very nearly mirrors that of the book's author, Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera.
Black Sunlight Volume of African writers series, ISSN HEB paperbacks: Author: Dambudzo Marechera: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Pearson Education, ISBN: Synopsis. In Dambudzo Marechera’s second experimental novel, he parodies African nationalist and racial identifications as part of an argument that notions of an ‘essential African identity’ were often invoked to authorize a number of totalitarian regimes across Africa. Such irreverent, avant-garde literature was criticized upon publication in Zimbabwe in , and Black Sunlight was banned on charges of ‘Euromodernism’ and as a challenge to the concept of nation-building in the. November UK Paperback. Title: Black Sunlight (African Writers Series) Author (s): Dambudzo Marechera. ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Pearson Education Limited. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU. Genre Pages. Science Fiction. Fantasy.
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