Short Writings from Bulawayo

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Description

Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards. It is a book of stories, poems and non-fiction pieces that are evocative of Zimbabwe's second city and its rural surroundings. The collection from 23 contributors tells of many things: of family and friendship, or fear and death, or witches and spirits, of hunger and drought, of dreams and aspirations, of leaving home and leaving Zimbabwe, of queues and loneliness, of football and bicycles and of growing old and of love. A unifying theme of many of the stories and poems is loss - of innocence, of purpose, of love, of culture, of belonging, and of life.

Sujets

• Littérature Africaine
• Littérature Zimbabwéenne
• Literature

Informations

• Publié par: amabooks
• Date de parution: 15 août 2003
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780797443310
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Short Writings

from

Bulawayo

Edited by Jane Morris

’amaBooks

ISBN 0-7974-2540-3

This collection: ’amaBooks, 2003

Each contribution remains the copyright of the author

Published by ’amaBooks P.O. Box AC1066, Ascot, Bulawayo email: [e-mail]

Cover painting by Anne Simone Hutton

’amaBooks would like to express their thanks to HIVOS for making this publication possible.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Preface

Short Writings from Bulawayois a book of stories, poems and non-fiction pieces. The collection tells of many things: of family and friendship, of fear and death, of witches and spirits, of hunger and drought, of dreams and aspirations, of leaving home and leaving Zimbabwe, of queues and loneliness, of football and bicycles, of growing old and of love. A unifying theme of many of the stories and poems is loss – of innocence, of purpose, of love, of culture, of belonging, of life. A reflection of our times. Most of the writings are set in the homes, streets and bars of present day Bulawayo, or in the surrounding rural areas. We also get a glimpse through the eyes of the writers into the lives of different people at different times – from Makokoba in the 1920s, through Thorngrove of the 1950s to rural Matabeleland in the 1960s and 1980s. The collection takes us from the elegiac quality of John Eppel’sRain in Winterthe rumbustious energy of Spencer Crewe’s to The Little House; from the scholarly writing of Terence Ranger to the fertile imaginations of Christopher Mlalazi and Farai Mpofu. Some of the stories and poems will make you sad and some will make you smile. The pieces were chosen for their good writing, but also to reflect and celebrate the diversity of life in and around the City of Bulawayo. The inspiration for the book was to give voice to new writers who might otherwise be unheard and, through their writing, to bring together the different communities that make up Bulawayo – to show that there is more to unite us than to divide us.

Shadows

White Man Walking

The Little House

Evil That Fathers Do

Longings

Ever Smart

The Hand of Darkness

Bush Cucumber

The Bar

The Queue

Rain in Winter

The Witch

The Erl–king

True Love

Man in Stocking

A Seed of Hope

Contents

Godfrey M. Sibanda

John Eppel

Spencer Crewe

Mathew Chokuwenga

Judy Maphosa

Pete Hutton

Christopher Mlalazi

Anne Simone Hutton

Tawanda Chipato

Bryony Rheam

John Eppel

Farai Mpofu

Deon Marcus

Mzana Mthimkhulu

Anne Simone Hutton

Masimba Manyonga

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Reverie on a Dark Beauty

Bicycles and the Social History of Bulawayo

The Boxing Day Clashes of 1929

One Man’s View of the World

Developing Rhodes’ Grave

On a Day Like This

Grandfather’s Birthday

Bhalagwe

Mtagati Mkulu

Prima Donna

The Apple Tree

Tuli

Contributors

John S. Read

Terence Ranger

Pathisa Nyathi

A.D.C. Hyland

Jackson Ndlovu

Bhekilizwe Dube

Shirley Tarr

Shari Eppel

Derek Huggins

Deon Marcus

Deon Marcus

Pete Hutton

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