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The Zimbabwean Maverick - Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking (Hardcover)
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The Zimbabwean Maverick - Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of
Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of
reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a
traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe's history, Marechera
witnessed the upheavals caused by different parties battling for
power in the nation. Aware of the fact that all institutionalized
narratives - whether they originated from the colonial governance
of the UK, Ian Smith's white minority regime, or Zimbabwe's
revolutionary parties - appeal to visions of a utopian society but
reveal themselves to be fiction, Marechera imagined a unique
utopia. For Marechera, utopia is not a static entity but a moment
of perpetual change. He rethinks utopia by phrasing it as an
ongoing event that ceaselessly contests institutionalized
narratives of the postcolonial self and its relationship to
society. Marechera writes towards a vision of an alternative future
for the country. Yet, it is a vision that does not constitute a
fully rounded sense of utopia. Being cautious about the world and
the operation of power upon the people, rather than imposing his
own utopian ideals, Marechera chooses instead to destabilize the
narrative constitution of the self in relation to society in order
to turn towards a truly radical utopian thinking that empowers the
individual.
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