Zimbabwean transitions
Subtitle: essays on Zimbabwean literature in English, Ndebele and Shona
By: edited by Mbongeni Z. Malaba and Geoffrey V. Davis
Series: Matatu -- no. 34
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng; nde; sna
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789042023765
Subjects: Zimbabwean literature
Other titles: Black studies center.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic mode of access: World Wide Web.

In English, Ndebele and Shona.
Table of contents: title: Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesian Fiction / Anthony Chennells; title: Knowing Native, Going Native: Cognitive Borderlines and the Sense of Belonging in Doris Lessing's African Laughter and Dan Jacobson's The Electronic Elephant; title: Representing the Past in the Present: Timelessness of the Ndebele Royal Praises / Beverlyn Dube; title: Inkos' uLobengula yasinyamalala: The Attitude to Tradition in Ndebele Theoretical Writing / Alena Rettová; title: The Significance of Ndebele Historical Fiction / Samukele Hadebe; title: The Changing Roles of Women in siNdebele Literature / Tommy Matshakayile-Ndlovu / The Portrayal of Women in Stanley Nyamfukudza's Works / Mbongeni Z. Malaba; title: Coming Unstuck: Masculine Identities in Postcolonial Zimbabwean Fiction / Patricia Alden; title: The Fourth Dimension: Dambudzo Marechera as a Dramatist - An Analysis of Two Plays / Owen S. Seda; title: Modern Shona Literature as a Site of Struggle, 1956-2000 / Emmanuel M. Chiwome; title: From a "Puny Domesticity" to Topical Commitment: Trends in the Development of Shona Written Drama Since 1968 / Kennedy C. Chinyowa; title: "Spirit of Place": Mungoshi's Rolling World / Rosemary Gray; title: The Zimbabwe International Book Fair / Virginia Phiri; title: "You need to Have the Idea, the Vision, and the Passion": An Interview with Irene Staunton; title: Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera: On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize for Her Novel Butterfly Burning in German Translation Under the Title Schmetterling in Flammen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002 / Geoffrey V. Davis.