Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration

New Research

Studies:

  • Drew Shaw, Transgression and Beyond: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature (forthcoming 2009)
  • Nhamo Mhiripiri, ed., Speaking to; Living with Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Works (forthcoming 2009)

Books with chapters or substantial parts on Marechera:

  • James Currey, Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature (Oxford: James Currey, 2008)
  • Ranka Primorac and Stephen Chan, eds., Zimbabwe in Crisis: the International Response and the Space of Silence (London: Routledge, 2007)
  • Gerald Gaylard, After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2005; Transaction Publishers, 2008)
  • Kizito Muchemwa and Robert Muponde, eds., Manning the Nation: Father Figures in Zimbabwean Literature and Society (Harare: Weaver; Johannesburg: Jacana, 2007)
  • Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski, eds., Versions and Subversions in African Literatures (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005-2007)
  • Flora Veit-Wild, Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature (Oxford: James Currey, 2006)
  • Elleke Boehmer, Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005)
  • Robert Muponde and Ranka Primorac, eds., Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (Harare: Weaver, 2005)

Theses:

  • Helon Habila, Dambudzo Marechera's biography, PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, UK
  • Anna-Leena Toivanen, "The Marechera Cult", PhD thesis, Univeristy of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Jennifer Armstrong, "Counting the Shaman's Bones: Marechera's Mode of Writing and his Unusual Insights", PhD thesis, University of Western Australia
  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu, "A comparative analysis of Dambudzo Marechera and Percy Bysshe Shelley", PhD thesis, University of Kent, UK

See also:

  • David Pattison, No Rooom for Cowardice (Africa World Press, 2001)
  • Annie Gagiano, Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa (Boulder, CO; London: Lynne Rienner, 2000)
  • Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennelles, eds., Emerging Perspective on Dambudzo Marechera (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1999)
  • Flora Veit-Wild, Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work (London: Hans Zell, 1992; Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2004)
  • Kirsten Holst-Petersen, An Articulate Anger: Dambudzo Marechera 1952-1987 (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1988)
  • Flora Veit-Wild and Ernst Schade, eds., Dambudzo Marechera, 4 June 1952 - 18 August 1987: Pictures, poems, prose, tributes (Harare: Baobab Books, 1988)

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