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Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera''s work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers.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 sets out to interrogate. In this important and timely contribution to African literarystudies, Grant Hamilton has gathered together essays of world-renowned, established, and young academics from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera''s prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera''s work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.sia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera''s prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera''s work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.sia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera''s prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera''s work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.sia and Australia in order to discuss the important literary and philosophical influences that course through Marechera''s prose, poetry and drama. From classical allusion to the political philosophy of anarchism, this collection of new research on Marechera''s work makes clear the extraordinary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.inary breadth and quality of thought that Marechera brought to his writing. Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject (Rodopi, 2011), as well as a number of articles on contemporary African, postcolonial, and world literatures. He is currently working on his second book, Deleuze and African Literature.
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9781847010629

ISBN-10

1847010628

Weight

0.82 Pounds

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6.25 x 0.75 x 9.50 In

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$29.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

BOYE6

Published On

2013-01-17


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