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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785040503321

Titolo

Long time coming [[electronic resource] ] : short writings from Zimbabwe / / edited by Jane Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ascot, Bulawayo, : 'amaBooks, c2008

ISBN

0-7974-4412-2

1-282-86888-8

9786612868887

0-7974-4340-1

0-7974-4341-X

0-7974-4223-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrisJane <1953->

Disciplina

820

Soggetti

Zimbabwean literature (English) - 20th century

Zimbabwean literature (English) - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Arrested Development - Sandisile Tshuma; The Awards Ceremony - John Eppel; Bus Fare - Julius Chingono; Bababulele - John S. Read; The Chicken Bus - Linda Msebele; The Cracked, Pink Lips of Rosie's Bridegroom - Petina Gappah; Echoes of Silence - Raisedon Baya; Hwange - Andrew Pocock; Fiction - Brian Chikwava; The First Lady's Yellow Shoes - Peter Ncube; First Rain - Judy Maposa; Innocence - Ian Rowlands; Justice - Wim Boswinkel; King of Bums - Christopher Mlalazi; 10 Lanigan Avenue - Mathew Chokuwenga; Passing Villages - Anne Simone Hutton

A Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Monireh JassatLoving the Self - Bhekilizwe Dube; Miss Parker and the Tugboat - Bryony Rheam; Poetry is... - Ignatius T. Mabasa; Not Slaves to Fashion - Mzana Mthimkhulu; The Pencil Test - Diana Charsley; Pleasure - Chaltone Tshabangu; And the Rains Came - Pathisa Nyathi; Rain in July - Fungai Rufaro Machirori; Rum and Still Waters - Lloyd Robson; The Sadza Eaters (after Van Gogh) - David Goodwin; Safari - Owen Sheers; Six Pack - Wame Molefhe; Some Kind of Madness - Ignatius Mabasa; A Study in Blue - Deon



Marcus; Stampede - Thabisani Ndlovu

Who Knows What Season Tomorrow Brings - Gothataone MoengVendor and Child - John Eppel; Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe's history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps no water, banks no money, hospitals no drugs, bars no beer. Snapshots of characters surviving against seemingly insurmountable odds. Horrific snapshots of the abuse of power, of violence and oppression, of the destruction of dreams. But this is Zimbabwe and there are lighter moments and moments of hope: in some of life's simple pleasures, in th