In her Zimbabwean novels Yvonne Vera experiments with ways of retaining the features of precolonial orality from the perspective of a postcolonial kind of writing primarily concerned with offering contemporary African women a space of freedom and self-expression. Vera’s writings work against the silencing imposed on women by patriarchy and colonialism, and all her novels, which move fluidly between orature and literature so as to blend rather than juxtapose them, stress that “to write is to banish silence.” In a way this is the writer’s answer to the complex question asked in her first novel - “How can words be made still, without turning into silence?” - and it is also the woman’s answer to the socio-historical predicaments of her fellow A...
This paper reflects on how the female subaltern constantly searches for a way to negotiate her repre...
This thesis is presented in two parts – a Critical Thesis and a portfolio of Creative Writing. My Cr...
The paper examines how literature and linguistics are inextricably linked. It reflects how literatur...
In her Zimbabwean novels Yvonne Vera experiments with ways of retaining the features of precolonial ...
In her Zimbabwean novels Yvonne Vera experiments with ways of retaining the features of precolonial ...
This paper focuses essentially on the characters we find in Yvonne Vera’s four subsequent nove...
Yvonne Vera is a reformist writer of Zimbabwe who agitated the society to attend to serious issues i...
The Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is one of the most important writers to emerge from the African co...
Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is well known. She was created in Bulawayo. She attended a university ...
Yvonne Vera’s death in 2005 brought to a tragic close the career of one of Zimbabwe’s, indeed Africa...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.This dissertation is a study of women and utterance ...
The whole of Yvonne Vera’s narrative production (five published novels and a number of short stories...
This paper is particularly concerned with identifying and examining some peculiar features of Yvonne...
In Zimbabwe (like in most post-colonial African nations), history holds a critical place...
Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins (2002), both thematically and stylistically, dramatizes a pathologic...
This paper reflects on how the female subaltern constantly searches for a way to negotiate her repre...
This thesis is presented in two parts – a Critical Thesis and a portfolio of Creative Writing. My Cr...
The paper examines how literature and linguistics are inextricably linked. It reflects how literatur...
In her Zimbabwean novels Yvonne Vera experiments with ways of retaining the features of precolonial ...
In her Zimbabwean novels Yvonne Vera experiments with ways of retaining the features of precolonial ...
This paper focuses essentially on the characters we find in Yvonne Vera’s four subsequent nove...
Yvonne Vera is a reformist writer of Zimbabwe who agitated the society to attend to serious issues i...
The Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is one of the most important writers to emerge from the African co...
Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is well known. She was created in Bulawayo. She attended a university ...
Yvonne Vera’s death in 2005 brought to a tragic close the career of one of Zimbabwe’s, indeed Africa...
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.This dissertation is a study of women and utterance ...
The whole of Yvonne Vera’s narrative production (five published novels and a number of short stories...
This paper is particularly concerned with identifying and examining some peculiar features of Yvonne...
In Zimbabwe (like in most post-colonial African nations), history holds a critical place...
Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins (2002), both thematically and stylistically, dramatizes a pathologic...
This paper reflects on how the female subaltern constantly searches for a way to negotiate her repre...
This thesis is presented in two parts – a Critical Thesis and a portfolio of Creative Writing. My Cr...
The paper examines how literature and linguistics are inextricably linked. It reflects how literatur...