Fifteen years after his death Dambudzo Marechera is still one of the most exciting and subversive writers Africa has produced. In this documentary reader, Veit Wild offers a multifaceted portrait of a man whose life was as tortured as his fiction. Through a wide-ranging collection of personal interviews, memoirs by friends and fellow writers like Nadine Gordimer, previously unpublished manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia, she explores the man and the myth. Both a comprehensive study of the man and an eloquent biography of a generation of Zimbabweans.
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Fifteen years after his death Dambudzo Marechera is still one of the most exciting and subversive writers Africa has produced. In this documentary reader, Veit Wild offers a multifaceted portrait of a man whose life was as tortured as his fiction. Through a wide-ranging collection of personal interviews, memoirs by friends and fellow writers like Nadine Gordimer, previously unpublished manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia, she explores the man and the myth. Both a comprehensive study of the man and an eloquent biography of a generation of Zimbabweans.