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Bulawayo Burning - The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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Bulawayo Burning - The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African
cities and Zimbabwean cultural life. NEW LOW PRICE This book is
designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel
Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946
and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explorewhat
historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary
imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history
imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect
'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others
are in effect biographies of 'characters'. The book draws upon and
quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this
historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the
historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the
experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white
urban social history. TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor
of Race Relations, University of Oxford and author of many books
including Writing Revolt, Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from
the Rocks (1999) and was co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000).
Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
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