How I imagined the baobab running clumsily across the plains, with grass and the little trees laughing at the big belly of the baobab heaving up and down. Apparently, critical discourse that negates a sustained oral history does so without considering that its significance is cultural, not universal. The use of English in Zimbabwean literature as an indicator of hybridity is also present in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name . English is questioned not only in its use as printed text, but also in the standardized form. Vera's novel challenges the traditional use of English in the titling of her work.
Difference inhibits fluidity in thought and in experience.
The absence of a name, or the elimination of difference, enables unity. Without a Name manages to maintain consistency and coherence although it is not written in a traditional, linear manner. Through this, one might conclude that the author has control of the language. The author communicates her intention to the reader not only through the printed text, but through the unstated experiences of Mazvita as well. There was nothing like pulling that mushroom.