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Muchena, Kudakwashe Christopher. "Dambudzo Marechera: a psychobiographical study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020777.

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Marechera the Zimbabwean writer, poet and novelist emerged in the late 1970s as a new voice in African literature, but his writing career lasted less than a decade. It was his iconoclastic, dense style that expressed the psychological disintegration prevalent in Africa during this period and challenged the central beliefs of both the nationalist and post-independence eras. Defying the limitations of nationality, race and culture, Marechera’s writing explores universal issues, particularly urban existence in the late twentieth century. Marechera’s life and work were closely linked. His outspoke

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Upton, Creon. "Beyond knowledge : A reading of Dambudzo Marechera." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7034.

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By concentrating on his prose works, this thesis explores Dambudzo Marechera's rendering of the decentred self and his examining of this in terms of both its relationship with society, and its impact on metaphysical thought, particularly anarchist idealism. Colin Style, in his essay "The White man in Black Zimbabwean Literature," claims parenthetically, in reference to Marechera's attitude towards Europeans, that "[t]o be fair, as a total iconoclast, he is rampantly anti-everything." This thesis both agrees and disagrees with Style's comment. In terms of Marechera's hostility towards even the

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Shaw, Drew Campbell. "Transgression and beyond : Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean literature." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28585.

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Recent criticism has claimed Marechera's unconventionality represents an anomaly in Zimbabwean literature. Problematically, this implies a fundamental separation of the author from the concerns, styles and strategies of other writers. In this thesis I argue, on the contrary, that Marechera demonstrates a propensity for dialogue with other Zimbabwean writers. Moreover, such a dialogue is crucial to the development of a critical discourse capable of addressing elements of contradiction. Returning Marechera to the heart of debate in Zimbabwean literature, the thesis focuses on the meaning of his

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Akcay, Ahmet Sait. "Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32430.

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This study explores the modernist subjectivity in Africa by revisiting two major poets, Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera. It argues that the modernist self is created in the form of melancholy and mourning. The main question is to see how the African modernist subjectivity is constructed through poetry. As subjects of colonialism, both Okigbo and Marechera sought to establish new links combining them with the mainstream Euromodernist movement along with their own spiritual roots. In the sense of the construction of a modernist self, the main predicament they have to challenge is the W

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Leroux, Pierre. "Figure christique et messianisme dans les oeuvres de Dambudzo Marechera et Tchicaya U Tam'si." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA048/document.

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La Bible est un des premiers livres traduits dans la plupart des langues d'Afrique subsaharienne et l'imagerie qui lui est associée a par conséquent joué un rôle essentiel dans la constitution des imaginaires littéraires propres à chaque région. Parmi toutes les figures de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, le Christ occupe une place à part, car il est la source de toute rédemption et un personnage qui vaut par son ambivalence, au croisement du religieux et du politique. Représentation en creux construite par des discours multiples, il est à la fois ou successivement un révolutionnaire qui se b

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Lilford, Charles Grant. "Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18705.

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This thesis examines the trope of Allegory in the work of two Southern African writers, JM Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera. It discusses the trope's use in redefining the dominant theme of the dialectic between scarcity and plenty. In much of Southern African literature, this dialectic is expressed allegorically. Drought represents a physical and spiritual lack while gardens represent human attempts to respond to that lack by creating fertility and meaning. The thesis is based on the premise that Southern African literature is best understood from as wide a perspective as possible. Coetzee and

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Pattison, David. "From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe via Oxford and London : a study of the career of Dambudzo Marechera." Thesis, University of Hull, 1998. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3859.

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[From the introduction] : In my first chapter I will offer a review of Marechera's reputation and the critical reception given to his work, both during his life and since his death. In Chapter Two I Will outline the major theoretical issues raised by Marechera's work: Art versus psychological catharsis; the artist-as-communal-spokesman versus the artist-as-Romantic-individualist; nationalism versus literary universalism. Chapters Three, Four, Five and Six will then consider in sequence, the work produced in Oxford, in London and in Harare, tracing the writer's physical and psychological deteri

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Andrade, Nayara Cristina Rodrigues de. "“A casa tornou-se minha mente": a representação da realidade em The House of Hunger, de Dambudzo Marechera." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6542.

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Mushakavanhu, Tinashe. "Anarchies of the mind : a contrapuntal reading of the poetry and prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Dambudzo Marechera." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69686/.

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The thesis examines the historical and contemporary engagements of philosophical anarchism in the selected writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Dambudzo Marechera in a bid to establish an anarchic poetics that emerges between them. Both use poetry and prose to express opposition to values and relations characterising authoritarian societies while also expressing alternative social, political and personal values. The unusual pairing of two writers who wrote and lived in very different times inevitably prompts an enquiry into the various trajectories of philosophical anarchism, Romanticism and p

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Ben, Amor Anis [Verfasser], Flora [Akademischer Betreuer] Veit-Wild, and Susanne [Akademischer Betreuer] Gehrmann. "Champ de tension entre littérature africaine et surréalisme : D'Aimé Césaire à Dambudzo Marechera / Anis Ben Amor. Gutachter: Flora Veit-Wild ; Susanne Gehrmann." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1015016553/34.

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Amor, Anis Ben. "Champ de tension entre littérature africaine et surréalisme." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16269.

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Die surrealistische Idee hatte einen starken Einfluss auf die Begründer der Négritude-Bewegung Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor und Léon-Gontran Damas. Diese Beziehung ist vielfach untersucht worden. Weitgehend unberücksichtigt ist bisher die jüngere Generation afrikanischer Schiftsteller geblieben. In dieser Studie wird daher besonders exemplarisch Dambudzo Marechera behandelt, dessen Werk noch nicht unter surrealistischen Aspekten untersucht wurde. Es geht darum, die Formen der literarischen Avantgarde in Afrika südlich der Sahara in ihren surrealistischen Prägungen anhand der Poetik und

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Neumann, Stephanie. "Gebrochenes Schweigen." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14973.

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In der zimbawischen Literatur sind die Themen Nation, Körper, Gewalt, Sprache und Erinnerung aufs engste miteinander verbunden. Durch den Einfluß von Yvonne Vera hat sich in den 90er Jahren das Bild des weiblichen Körpers und insbesondere die Diskussion um koloniale und postkoloniale Gewalt deutlich verändert. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit geht es um die Frage nach Nation. Unterschiedliche Darstellungen von Nehanda und den Kämpferinnen des 2. Chimurenga werden näher beleuchtet. Außerdem geht es um Veras "pastoral novel" in der sie von einer weißen Farmersfrau erzählt. Im zweiten Teil geht es um d

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Shaw, Drew Campbell. ""X-rays" of self and society : Dambudzo Marechera's avant-gardism and its implications for debates concerning Zimbabwean literature and culture." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18469.

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This thesis discusses Dambudzo Marechera's avant-gardism and its significance in the context of Zimbabwean literature and culture. I use the term avant-garde to describe Marechera's defiance of hegemonies, traditions, and prescriptions for writing, as well as his innovations with form and style. In the context of Zimbabwe, Marechera's avant-gardism involves a rejection of cultural nationalism, and an eschewal of traditional realist criteria for writing. The thesis locates Marechera in a socio-historical context, and in the framework of black Zimbabwean literature (written in English). It discu

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Mangwanda, Khombe M. "The Zimbabwean nation as cultural construct in the works of John Eppel, Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne Vera." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27635.

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Musvoto, Rangarirai Alfred. "Recasting history : imagining and mapping out identities in some Zimbabwean poetry." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28905.

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This study investigates how selected Zimbabwean poets use their poetry to re-imagine and rewrite Zimbabwean history to create new identities. It seeks to achieve this by analyzing the poetry of Musaemura Zimunya, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera, Philip Zhuwao, Freedom Nyamubaya and some other women poets from the anthology A Woman’s Plea and John Eppel’s poetry. The study argues that history and identity are unstable concepts whose meanings and usages are influenced by a variety of factors. It further contends that while the significations of history are generally split between how it is re

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"“The Seeds of Limitlessness”: Dambudzo Marechera’s Radical Utopian Thinking." 2016. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1292132.

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處於津巴布韋滿著歷史性創傷的政局過渡時期，Dambudzo Marechera的作品見證了各方在爭奪津巴布韋權力的動盪時代。正因為意識到所有敘述被制度化，不論是英國殖民統治，Ian Smith的少數白人政權或津巴布韋的革命政黨所呼籲建立的一個烏托邦社會，也揭示了這一切只是虛構，而Marechera卻有著一些獨特的烏托邦觀點。對Marechera而言，烏托邦並不是一個完整的靜態，而是永恆地在變化的時刻。他重新思考烏托邦，並以定義它為對後殖民自我及其與社會關係的制度化敘述的無止境批判。Marechera道出國家有著另一種未來的憧憬。然而，這並不構成一個完整烏托邦。了解到這世界和權力的運作，Marechera選擇顛覆社會加諸自我的敘述，以走向個體主導的真正激進烏托邦思想，而強加自己的烏托邦理想。<br>While writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe’s history, Dambudzo Marechera witnessed an age of upheavals in which different parties battled for power over Zimbabwe. Being aware of the fact that all institutionalized narratives,

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