Broken by Her Country of Broken Things: Memory, Resistance, and Politics of Time in NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022).
This article presents a reading of NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel Glory (2022) in the light of indigenous temporality and structural and administrative violence in the transition from pre-colonial to colonial, and then to postcolonial times in an imaginary African land. The study argues that structures o...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Quarterly Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 81 - 96 |
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