The Fourth Dimension. Dambudzo Marechera as a Dramatist – An Analysis of Two Plays

Seda, Owen

doi:10.1163/9789401205665_010

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Marechera,Dambudzo

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth‐Century Fiction

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Dambudzo Marechera is one of the major innovators in African English‐language writing. He has remained almost as controversial a figure as he became with the publication of his initial collectionThe House of Hunger(1978), but Marechera's radical anti‐establishment conduct was an expression of a sophisticated and deeply held belief about the need to resist “slow brain death” (quoted in Veit‐Wild 1992, 40), to which most people (in his view) subject themselves by living lives of social conformity. His visceral, surreal descriptions, irreverent humor, scatological diction, and scathing political criticism of all power‐mongers have retained their biting force and have inspired a succeeding generation of writers.

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