Not in the African Image: Utopia, Dystopia and the Politics of Destitution in the Fiction of Dambudzo Marechera.
The article addresses the utopian dimension at work in the fiction of Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, taking into account the concepts of destitution and interculturality. It analyzes the organizing conceptual image of black sunlight in Marechera's novel "Black Sunlight" to clarify instances o...
| Publicado en: | Spaces of Utopia Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 18 - 34 |
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Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras
2012
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