Zimbabwean Maverick

Zimbabwean Maverick

Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking

CHOW-QUESADA, Shun Man Emily

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2024

210

Mole

9781032332482

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Situating Marechera and Utopia

Chapter 1: Marechera, Heimat, and the Utopian Function of Literature






Literature and Utopian Thinking



The Role of the Writer



Marechera's Heimat

Chapter 2: The Utopia of an Outsider






The Escape Mentality



The "Outsider" and the "Nowhere"



Ambiguity and Openness

Chapter 3: Violence and Power






Power in Violence



Women in Violence



Violence and Aporia

Chapter 4: Narratives of Identities






Racial Identity



Ethnic Identity



National Identity



A Being of Rootlessness

Chapter 5: The (Un)Real






Orientating Reality



Melting the "Columns" of Society



Embracing the "(Un)real"

Chapter 6: The Writer and the Community






The Individual versus the Collective



A Constellation of Individuals



Responsibility and Emancipation

Conclusion: Marechera - the "Dissident"
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Black Sunlight;Zimbabwean National Identity;Dambudzo Marechera;Flora Veit Wild;Young Man;Brian Chikwava;Robert Muponde;Utopian Thinking;Devil's End;Black Insider;Utopian Function;Utopian Programmes;Nation Building;Bishop Muzorewa;Zimbabwean Literature;Utopian Impulse;Bloch's Theorisation;Anticipatory Illumination;Green Baboon;African Image;African Diasporic Community;Objective Violence;Post-independence Zimbabwe;Nation Building Project;Real Drunk