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Harare North
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Author : Brian Chikwava
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-02
Harare North written by Brian Chikwava and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Fiction categories.
When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi. He ends up in Shingi's Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various levels of desperation. Shingi struggles to find meaningful work and to meet the demands of his family back home; Tsitsi makes a living renting her baby out to women defrauding the Social Services. As our narrator struggles to make his way in 'Harare North', negotiating life outside the legal economy and battling with the weight of what he has left behind in strife-torn Zimbabwe, every expectation and preconception is turned on its head. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.
Harare Nord
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Author : Brian Chikwava
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Harare Nord written by Brian Chikwava and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Il est effronté, arrogant, manipulateur, incorrect, menaçant, tordu. Il est aussi caustique, brillant, un peu sexy et drôle. Il est perdu. Il peut devenir fou. Il, c'est le héros de ce roman, fraîchement arrivé du Zimbabwe à Londres, qu'il surnomme Harare Nord, du nom de la capitale de son pays bien-aimé. Après quelques semaines chez un cousin peu accueillant, il s'installe dans un squat habité par quatre compatriotes, tous en quête d'une vie à peu près décente. La plus jeune des quatre loue par exemple son bébé aux femmes qui cherchent un appartement auprès des services sociaux. Brian Chikwava a inventé pour son personnage une voix hautement singulière et poétique, dérangeante, féroce et caustique. Le lecteur le suit et s'il sourit la première fois qu'il lit "Je suis un homme de principe moi", il finit par le penser lorsque ce refrain revient pour la dernière fois à la fin du livre.
Housing In The Aftermath Of The Fast Track Land Reform Programme In Zimbabwe
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Author : Lovemore Chipungu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-11
Housing In The Aftermath Of The Fast Track Land Reform Programme In Zimbabwe written by Lovemore Chipungu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-11 with Science categories.
This book delves into the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe to provide insight into how it facilitated the delivery of housing for low-income urban households. It highlights the politics of land reforms and the power of community engagement in housing development in urban areas. Prior to the FTLRP, the Zimbabwean governments had never embraced popular modes of housing production as key factors in urban development. In the area of low-income housing, informal housing schemes have always been treated with apathy and indifference. This left the conventional mode of housing production to be the only legitimate means to house low-income households despite its shortcomings. However, the onset of the FTLRP in 2000 resulted in homeless urban households grasping the opportunity to invade farms for housing development. Through the lenses of Marxism and Neoliberalism, this book analyses housing schemes that emerged and the overall impact of the FTLRP on housing and land delivery in Harare. This analysis is based on empirical evidence obtained from key informants and household surveys conducted in Harare. The authors argue that the FTLRP provided a platform for innovativeness by households, supported by the unpronounced national urban vision and prowess of the political leadership. Hence the success of these housing schemes can be measured by acquisition of land which guarantees households access to the city. However, some of these housing schemes pose challenges – key among them being lack of infrastructure. The book concludes by presenting a new model for effective delivery of land and housing for the urban poor. This is envisaged as a useful policy tool for urban planners, housing experts, land economists, urban and regional geographers, as well as sociologists, political scientists and social workers engaged in public administration of land and housing.
Contemporary African Literature In English
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Author : M. Krishnan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Contemporary African Literature In English written by M. Krishnan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.
The Routledge Companion To Twenty First Century Literary Fiction
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Author : Daniel O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Routledge Companion To Twenty First Century Literary Fiction written by Daniel O'Gorman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge, mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards, as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature, this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then, such as Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity, including race, sexuality, class, and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology, terrorism, activism, and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction, including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral, graphic novels, and comedic writing, and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts, students, and general readers, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of contemporary literature.
Community Resilience Under The Impact Of Urbanisation And Climate Change
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Author : Chirisa, Innocent
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2019-01-06
Community Resilience Under The Impact Of Urbanisation And Climate Change written by Chirisa, Innocent and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-06 with Business & Economics categories.
As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has been called global weirding, the term resilience has taken centre stage. This is crunch time –as we grapple with the negative effects of both climate change and urbanisation. Some commentators have compared the huge problems we face today to Oom Schalk’s proverbial leopard waiting for us in the withaak’s shade. Do we endlessly count Oom Schalk’s proverbial leopard’s spots? This is the question posed by a stellar cast of academics, researchers, and experts whose contributions in this text is a rallying cry for action to build resilience to the challenging impact of urbanisation and climate change. To that end, this volume gives hope about the potential for human agency. Our challenge however, is to re-examine our values, to change our conservation conversation and return to a more wise and holistic understanding of ourselves and our place in the Universe. Perhaps, then only can the obituaries on our demise stay locked in the drawer.
Postcolonial Literary Geographies
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Author : John Thieme
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Postcolonial Literary Geographies written by John Thieme and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.
The Short Story In South Africa
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Author : Rebecca Fasselt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-25
The Short Story In South Africa written by Rebecca Fasselt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Slavery Migrations And Transformations Connecting Old And New Diasporas To The Homeland Student Edition
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Author : Falola, Toyin
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2015-07-30
Slavery Migrations And Transformations Connecting Old And New Diasporas To The Homeland Student Edition written by Falola, Toyin and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Social Science categories.
Note: this is an abridged version of the book with references removed. The complete edition is also available on this website. From the historical movements of enslaved Africans to the Americas to newer migrations of Africans to spaces like Belgium and France, experiences of blackness on a global stage reflect themes of negotiation, persecution, isolation, unification, remembrance, and much more. Yet, it is impossible to minimize the complex experiences that make up the African diaspora throughout the world, as diasporic communities face a range of struggles, specifically related to the politics of identity and connections to the continent of Africa itself. This book is thus a timely and much-needed exploration of the intricate nature of culture and life in the African diaspora. It examines identities, collectivities, and relationships with Africa and Africans. It helps fill a gap in the field by illuminating the complex experiences of blackness in a manner that motivates readers to grapple with the nuances diaspora studies and African issues on a global stage. This book balances conceptualizations of diaspora by engaging with scholars exploring old African diasporas, newer migrations, and even regional movement within the continent of Africa itself. More importantly, the chronological breadth of the volume allows readers to explore historical matters alongside comparable contemporary issues as a way of assessing continuities and the ways in which communities continue to grapple with institutional racism, political marginalization, and negotiations between tradition and modernity on a global stage. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary nature of the book offers diverse approaches for robust engagement with African diaspora studies.
Finding My Way
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Author : Duncan Brown
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Finding My Way written by Duncan Brown and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with Social Science categories.
This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship. It is a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Finding My Way also attempts to find more creative, engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities universally. It seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative, the literary, and the affective, not only as things to value in the literary texts we read but also as ways of understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism—of registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.