“Spirit of Place”. Mungoshi’s Rolling World

Abstract

This paper cites MorrisseyÕs haiku as encapsulating D.H. LawrenceÕs theory of Ôspirit of placeÕ in which each country has its own peculiar identity that shapes its inhabitants. It argues that MungoshiÕs work evokes this ÔspiritÕ, the distinctive, exclusive essence of Zimbabwe: the land and its people. pirit of PlaceÕ, by the South African poet, Norman Morrissey, 1 from a collection entitled Seasons, provides both title and point of departure for this discussion of Charles MungoshiÕs The Setting Sun and the Rolling World. 2The place misses them Ð the Bushmen who know this tint stroking the mountain.

‘A lucid stream of everywhereness’ in Ben Okri'sWild(2012): A postmodern perspective

“…It is perhaps his recognition that 'the lucid stream of everywhereness' is the intaglio of intangibles that embody the hopes and longings of a people adumbrating a national culture. It is the spirit of the incommensurable that determines the basic issue of cultural experience (Gray 2007). Thus, as in Paul Ricoeur's 'no place', the paradoxical connotation of 'everywhereness' is that it is the only place through which the utopian imagination can contest the past and reshape the future -to 'rewrite the space in which [we] slept' (1998, Infinite riches).…”