New PDF release: Writing Still. New Stories from Zimbabwe

By Irene Staunton

ISBN-10: 1779220189

ISBN-13: 9781779220189

The heritage of Zimbabwe has continuously been mirrored in its oral and written literature. a lot of the intense fiction written within the Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties interested by the consequences of Zimbabwe’s conflict of liberation. Little has but been written approximately post-independence Zimbabwe and the advanced and tough matters that experience arisen within the final 20 years. This anthology of 22 brief tales presents a consultant pattern of the diversity and caliber of writing in Zimbabwe on the flip of the century, and an impressionistic mirrored image of the years for the reason that independence in 1980.

Included are tales through confirmed writers Shimmer Chinodya, Charles Mungoshi, Brian Chikwava; and a few more youthful or much less demonstrated writers, Clement Chihota, ask yourself Guchu, Chiedza Musengezi, Mary Ndlovu, Vivienne Ndlovu and Stanley Nyamfukudza. the gathering additionally displays a marginally broader viewpoint with tales by means of Alexandra Fuller, Derek Huggins, Pat Brickhill and Chris Wilson, who have interaction with historic reminiscence of the conflicts out of which Zimbabwe arose, and the teachings to be drawn from residing inside of a tradition except one’s personal. total, the anthology reaffirms the continual price hooked up to inventive writing in Zimbabwe, and illustrates that the country’s literary culture is alive and good, and reshaping itself for brand new times.

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