LEADER 03331oam 22004694a 450 001 9910467670503321 005 20170922081552.0 010 $a9956-763-69-1 035 $a(CKB)4340000000203139 035 $a(OCoLC)1004391201 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65250 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5045675 035 $a(PPN)220203296 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000203139 100 $a20170915d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage, Thought, Art and Existence$eCreative Nonfictions /$fTendai R. Mwanaka 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2017 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2017 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 208 pages) :)$ccolor illustrations 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 $a9956-762-10-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-208). 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Language, thought and reality -- 2. The writer's experience -- 3. Memories and memoir writing -- 4. The Caine Workshop and African writing reflections : how I decided on "Notes from Mai Mujuru's breast" -- 5. My Volmoed journey -- 6. Nyanga, December 2015 : in search of ancient ways -- 7. Collectivism vs. Individualism -- 8. Desire and pasion -- 9. Death (life) -- 10. Doubt -- 11. Dear John -- 12. It's not about me : dairies (2010-2011) -- 13. Age has no numbers -- 14. Gathering evidence : dairies (2012-2013) -- 15. Running away from the lotus position -- 16. The evidence of things said : dairies (2014-2015) -- 17. Coldplay's X&Y, angels, him and her -- 18. A date with Jonathon Matimba : an appreciation of the legendary Zimbabwean sculptor -- 19. Music and me. 330 $aThis book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa. The collection continues with Zimbabwe's Tendai Mwanaka's creative non-fiction ideology of presenting non-fiction in a creative, fresh, easy reading, simple language. With most of the essays driven by personal stories, the author ably renders them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers from the scholarly to the journalistic and the general. The pieces are grouped according to the topics, with the language essays starting the book, followed by thought, existential, and art essays. In tune with the adage the personal is political, Mwanaka lets the personal drive these essays as he tries to investigate and conversationally navigate his thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experience on language, existence and art. This is an invaluable contribution to the academic establishment, social theorists, linguists, literary theorists, journalists, activists and the general readership. 606 $aCreative nonfiction, African (English) 608 $aEssays. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCreative nonfiction, African (English) 676 $a891.735 700 $aMwanaka$b Tendai R.$0926772 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467670503321 996 $aLanguage, Thought, Art and Existence$92193708 997 $aUNINA