New Dambudzo Marechera Book Published


Editors Julie Cairnie and Dobrota Pucherova have announced the publication of Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo  Marechera in the 21st Century (LIT Verlag, Berlin 2012). The book will be  launched on *Saturday, June 16 at 6 pm in The Buttery, St.  Antony's College, Oxford*, as part of the annual Britain-Zimbabwe Research Day. The launch, which will  include screenings of films from the DVD that accompanies the  book, comes as part of the celebration of  Marechera's 60th birthday. 

About the book:



This multimedia collection was inspired by the life and work of the Zimbabwean  cult writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) demonstrates the growing  influence of this author among writers, artists and scholars worldwide and  invites the reassessment of his oeuvre and of categories of literary theory
such as modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Including a DVD with  audio-visual creative contributions and rare archival material, this volume  will be of interest to scholars and students of African, postcolonial and  postmodernist literature and culture, as well as audio-visual artists, writers and biographers.

Book contributors:
Elleke Boehmer, Flora Veit-Wild, Jane Bryce, James  Currey, Robert Fraser, Norman Vance, Comrade Fatso, Tinashe Mushakavanhu,  Memory Chirere, Ery Nzaramba, heeten bhagat, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Chris  Austin, Nhamo Mhiripiri, Gerald Gaylard, Katja Kellerer, Victor Mavedzenge, Anna-Leena  Toivanen, Carolyn Hart, Jennifer Armstrong, Ilpo Jauhianinen, Ernst Schade, Fiona Lloyd, Julie Cairne, Dobrota Pucherova

 

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