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      Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals

      Yvonne Vera

      The place is white-ruled Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) of the 1970s, the exile the African in his or her own land. Young men and women flee from their towns and villages to…

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      Nehanda

      Yvonne Vera

      A novel of delicacy and insight, evoking the power and mystery of the Zimbabwean past.

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      Without a Name: AND Under the Tongue

      Yvonne Vera

      Set in Zimbabwe, Without a Name is the story of Marvita, who travels from the country to Harare to escape the war and begin a new life. Under the Tongue…

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      Nehanda

      Yvonne Vera

      In the late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a village girl, is recognized through omens and portents as a…

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      The Stone Virgins

      Yvonne Vera

      This novel, set in the new Zimbabwe against Mugabe’s rise to power and subsequent brutal civil unrest, examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a…

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      Butterfly Burning

      Yvonne Vera,Vera

      Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late 1940s, the…

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      Izintombi Zamatshe Ezimsulwa

      Yvonne Vera

      The Stone Virgins, now translated here into Ndebele is an extraordinary and beautiful novel which reflects the graceful courage of Vera’s work. It is a novel in which the action…

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      Narrative Shape-Shifting: Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera

      Professor Arlene A. Elder (Royalty Account)

      The hybrid novels of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing, and Yvonne Vera address contemporary African politics in contrasting styles but complementary religious, cultural, and feminist approaches.

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