# Yvonne Vera

Yvonne Vera, né le 19 septembre 1964 à Bulawayo et morte le 7 avril 2005 à Toronto, est une écrivaine zimbabwéenne qui a exploré les thèmes de l'identité, de la culture et des droits des femmes dans ses romans et nouvelles.

## Citations de Yvonne Vera
### Without a Name, 1994

* (en) She longed deeply for the silence to be complete. She longed to escape the insistent cries of his triumph. The silence was not a forgetting, but a beginning.
* « Without a name » (1994), dans Without a name ; and, Under the tongue, Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002 (ISBN 0-374-52816-0), chap. Eight, p. 35 (lire en ligne)
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 8, p. 55
* (en) Mazvita was oppressed by her desire for time. She knew that this awareness did not coincide with Harare as she encountered it. Harare challenged the demarcations between day and night, offered distances from time, for part of being here was the forgetting of boundaries to days, of challenging futures. In Harare, years could go by and it would be as though one had arrived only yesterday. The discoveries offered by the city were tempting and endless… The city was contemptuous, it asked, did you only arrive yesterday ?
* « Without a name » (1994), dans Without a name ; and, Under the tongue, Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002 (ISBN 0-374-52816-0), chap. Sixteen, p. 65 (lire en ligne)
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 16, p. 91
* (en) Mainly, she searched for who she was, as she had realized that in the city she was someone new and different, someone she had not met. Mazvita had to find her Harare. She had to find a voice with which to speak, without trying to hide from herself.
* « Without a name » (1994), dans Without a name ; and, Under the tongue, Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002 (ISBN 0-374-52816-0), chap. Sixteen, p. 67 (lire en ligne)
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 16, p. 94
* (en) 1977. Everyone was an accomplice to war. The war made them strangers to words. They shaped any truth which comforted them. The war changed everything, even the idea of their own humanity. They were shocked at what they witnessed and lived through, what they were capable of enduring, the sights they witnessed. They welcomed silence. If they spoke with energy and abandon, it was to fill the empty spaces left by those who had died marvelous deaths, who had vanished in the midst of their journeying. The war made the people willing accomplices to distortions – distortions solitary and consoling.
* « Without a name » (1994), dans Without a name ; and, Under the tongue, Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002 (ISBN 0-374-52816-0), chap. Twenty-three, p. 88 (lire en ligne)
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 23, p. 118

### Under the Tongue, 1996

* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 1, p. 157
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 1, p. 159
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 1, p. 161
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 3, p. 169
* Citation choisie pour le 22 décembre 2024 (#SheSaid 2024).
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 3, p. 171
* (en) The woman on the moon is bearing a load on her head. She has traveled through the sky. She has seen all the pain of the world.
* « Under the tongue » (1996), dans Without a name ; and, Under the tongue, Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002 (ISBN 0-374-52816-0), chap. Three, p. 132 (lire en ligne)
* Une femme sans nom ; suivi de Sous la langue, Yvonne Vera (trad. Geneviève Doze), éd. Fayard, 2006 (ISBN 2-213-62310-4), chap. 3, p. 171
* Citation choisie pour le 19 novembre 2024 (#SheSaid 2024).

### Writing Near The Bone, 1997

* (en) The woman I am is inside the writing, embraced and freed by it. For me writing is light, a radiance that captures everything in a fine profile. This light searches and illuminates, it is a safe place from which to uncover the emotional havoc of our experience. Light is a bright warmth which heals. Writing can be this kind of light. Within it I do not hide. I travel bravely beyond that light, into the shadows that this light creates, and in that darkness it is also possible to be free, to write, to be a woman.
* Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1997 (traduction de Christiane Owusu-Sarpong)
* « Writing Near The Bone », Yvonne Vera (1997), dans Women writing Africa. 1, The southern region, Collectif, éd. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003 (ISBN 1-55861-406-0), p. 489-490 (lire en ligne)
* « Écrire à ras des os », Yvonne Vera (1997), dans Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique. 1, L'Afrique australe, Collectif, éd. Karthala, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-8111-0082-7), p. 671 (lire en ligne)
* (en) I learnt to write […] on the ground. We would spread the loamy soil into a smooth surface with the palm of our hands using loving and careful motions, then we would write with the tips of our fingers. […] Proud of our accomplishment we would then stand back to see what we had written. We had burrowed the earth like certain kinds of beetles and we were immensely satisfied
* « Writing Near The Bone », Yvonne Vera (1997), dans Women writing Africa. 1, The southern region, Collectif, éd. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003 (ISBN 1-55861-406-0), p. 491 (lire en ligne)
* « Écrire à ras des os », Yvonne Vera (1997), dans Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique. 1, L'Afrique australe, Collectif, éd. Karthala, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-8111-0082-7), p. 672-673

### The stone virgins, 2002

* (en) Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause ; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity : an eternity can exist without human presence.
* The stone virgins (2002), Yvonne Vera, éd. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 (ISBN 0-374-27008-2), chap. 3, p. 36 (lire en ligne)

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