Bones

Chenjerai Hove

Description

Bones is a powerful, heart-rending novel that provides a sensitive evocation of Marita, a farm worker, whose only son joined the freedom fighters in Zimbabwe�s war of liberation. He does not return after the war and Marita is determined to find him or find out what happened to him. This is perhaps a single clear theme in a landscape where women, particularly the poor and the marginalised, suffer many layers of oppression. Marita�s courage and endurance are reconstructed through the memories of those who knew her in a language steep in poetry and Shona idiom. Bones, which won the Noma Award in 1989, was Chenjerai Hove�s first novel in English.

Informations

• Publié par: Weaver Press
• Date de parution: 16 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781779223920
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Bones

Bones

Cenjeraî Hove

Fîrs pubîsed by Baobab Books, Box 567, Harare. 1988

hîs edîîon pubîsed by Weaver Press, Box A1922, Avondae, Harare. 2020 <www.weaverpresszîmbabwe.com>

© Cenjeraî Hove, 1998, 2021.

Typese by Weaver Press Cover Desîgn: Faraî Waace

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ïSBN: 978-1-77922-390-6 (p/b)  ïSBN: 978-1-77922-391-3 (ePub) ïSBN: 978-1-77922-392-0 (pd )

Chenjerai Hovewas born în Mazvîwa (1956-2015) communa ands, souern Zîmbabwe, near e mînîng own o Zvîsavane. Noveîs, poe, essayîs and ecurer, îs pubîsed Icîon încudesMasimba Avanu?(1986), Boneso e 1989 Noma Award or pubîsîng în (wînner Arîca),Sadows, (1991), andAncestors (1994). Hîs non- Icîon încudesSebeen Taes (essays, 1994),Guardians of te Soi(wî ïîya Trojanow, 1997),Paaver Finis (essays, 2002). Hîs poery încudesUp in Arms (1982),Swimming in Foods of Tears(wî yamba wa Kabîka, 1983),Red His of Home(1985),Rainbows in te Dustand bînd (1997) moon (2003). Hîs poery îs aso avaîabe a<ps://www. poeryînernaîona.org/pî/poe/5753/Cenjeraî-Hove/en/îe> He raveed exensîvey rougou Arîca, Europe, and e Unîed Saes on ecure ours, and was wrîer-în- resîdence a e unîversîîes o Zîmbabwe, eeds and ewîs (UK), Cark (Oregon), and eîden (e Neerands). He îved în Rambouîe, France, and Savanger, Norway – wrîîng, ecurîng and gîvîng poery readîngs. Hove’s noves ave been ransaed îno severa anguages, încudîng Frenc, German, Japanese, Norwegîan, Swedîs, Duc, and Danîs.

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For te women wose cidren did not return sons and daugters tose wo gave teir bones to te making of a new conscience, a conscience of bones, bood and footsteps dreaming of coming ome some day in vain

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Foreword

Tîs new edîîon o Cenjeraî Hove’s noveBones, îrs pubîsed în 1987, îs a îmey work o recovery and a remînder o îs împorance în e Zîmbabwean îerary canon.Bonesaso parîcîpaes în e creaîon o e înerexuaîy a as come o deîne e Zîmbabwean îerary ex wî îs reerenîa sye a audes o prîor exs and wrîers. Te îe o e nove îs aken rom e words spoken by Carwe, e medîum o e spîrî o Neanda, a ew momens beore se was anged durîng e Fîrs Cîmurenga o 1896. Her eroîc bu ragîc encouner wî e coonîa projec îs summed up în e propeîc words, “My bones wî rîse”. Tîs reurn o e pas o aun e presen and o demand jusîce îs key o undersandîng îndîgenous sysems as readers cross onoogîca and epîsemoogîca boundarîes, an îneresîng crossîng a esewere îs mapped by Anony Burgess în îs nove,Earty Powers,as e wrîes back o E.M. Forser’sA Passage to India. Cares Mungosî, aoug no usuay credîed wî înîîaîng e reerencîng o bones and e eme o aunîng în Zîmbabwean îeraure, audes o Soomon Muswaîro‘sFesoîn îs noveWaiting for te Rain, especîay în e dream caper. Te aunîng în Mungosî’s nove reecs a aîure o resove crîses în ways o beîng, knowîng and deveopîng a naîona conscîousness. Cenjeraî Hove wrîes back sîmuaneousy o Mungosî and Muswaîro. ïn Muswaîro’s nove a parîarca consrucîon urns Neanda îno a îx