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This original work is the only recent monographic treatment of the Zimbabwean novel and its political implications. It examines all the published novels of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera (d. April 2005), as well as major novels of five other internationally-acclaimed Zimbabwean writers, including Tsitsi Dangarembga and Chenjerai Hove, and does so against a political backdrop which goes right up to the March 2005 parliamentary elections.

The Place of Tears provides a modern and original historical account of post-independence Zimbabwean writing and its relationship to history and politics. The critical investigation focuses on fictional representations of space-time – which links the book to the tragically topical Zimbabwean issue of land.

Ranka Primorac has published extensively on Zimbabwean literature and brings to her work a deep contextual richness as well as theoretical sophistication. 

2006:142 x 222; 142pp
ISBN: 1 177922 051 0

Territory: World, excluding the UK