Veit-Wild They Called You Dambudzo

A Memoir
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-555-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veit-Wild, Flora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PRELUDE

PART ONE: TRAJECTORIES
Escape from the House of Hunger
The Last Image of My Father
Flower in the Snow
Defying the State
From Frau Mücke to Robert Mugabe

PART TWO: HARARE IN HEAT
December 1982
German Christmas in the Tropics
The Mozambican Bogey Man
The Oracle
Becoming Expatriates
Elective Affinities
Boscobel Drive
Guest of Honour
Harare International Book Fair 1983

PART THREE: EAGLETS OF DESIRE
Getting Entangled
Nowhere to Go
Having a Home
Max and Dambudzo
Facing the Publishers
The Taxi Has to Be Paid
Vumba and the Grand Finale
Coda 1: The Accident
Coda 2: I Hate Death

PART FOUR: HEAVEN'S TERRIBLE ECSTACY
A Reading and a Murder Charge
They Are Boiling My Bones in the Kitchen
8 Sloane Court
The Ghost of Amelia
The Other Woman
Projects and Rejects
Patterns of Poetry
Angry Notes
Lake Mcllwaine: The Entrapment
Coda 1: Seroconversion
Coda 2: Conception

PART FIVE: BASTARD DEATH
The Great Scare
The Hourglass
How to Live On
Shadows of Death
He Is Dead

PART SIX: ENTANGLED LEGACIES
The Execution
The Tracking
The Moment of Terror
Carnival and Cockroaches - The Appointment
The Lady in Black
The Valley of Death or: Busting the Kraken
Out of the Closet

Über Autor(innen)

Veit-Wild Flora:
Flora Veit-Wild is Emerita Professor of African literatures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She lived in Harare/Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1993 and became known for her work on Zimbabwean literature and as literary executor and biographer of Dambudzo Marechera and a founder member of the Zimbabwe Women Writers. Her numerous publications include studies of body, madness, sexuality and gender in Anglophone and Francophone African writing as well as code-switching and linguistic innovation in Shona literature.