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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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"
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"