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They Called You Dambudzo
Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature.
How shall I tell our story? I hear your voice ringing in mine. I struggle to disentangle a dense tapestry of memories. One thread will be caught up in another. Early images will embrace later ones. My gaze will often be filtered through your eyes, your poems. In the end I will not always be able to tell the original from the reflection. Just as you wrote, Time's fingers on the piano / play emotion into motion / the dancers in the looking glass never recognise us as their originals.
This book is a memoir with a 'double heartbeat'. At its centre is the author's relationship with the late Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, whose award-winning book The House of Hunger marked him as a powerful, disruptive, perhaps prophetic voice in African literature. Flora Veit-Wild is internationally recognised for her significant contribution to preserving Marechera's legacy. What is less known about Marechera and Veit-Wild is that they had an intense, personal and sexual relationship. This memoir explores this: t
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| Guests mingling few minutes before the start of Marechera commemoration at the ZGS, Harare, March 13 (Photo: Zimbabwe/Germany Society) |
Following the publication of short personal narratives on the late Dambudzo Marechera’s love affair with his biographer Flora Veit-Wild (who authored the narratives) in the current issue of Wasafiri, a London-based journal for international contemporary writing, Marechera’s life has become a poser that will keep challenging even literary and cultural luminaries in new, interesting ways.
The power of Marechera’s life story, which is inseparable from his texts, was clearly felt at his commemoration held at the Zimbabwe-Germany Society, Harare, on the evening of March 13.
The event, running under the theme “Re-visiting Dambudzo Marechera: Old Texts Brought to Life”, had a mixed-bag of panelists drawn from different fields in the literary sector and was moderated by Flora Veit-Wild.
And as usual, Marechera continues to draw a large audience from across the racial and cultural divide, bringing both artists and non-artists into his fold.
One of the interesting aspects of this event was the presentation by South Africa based
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Review of Vocabulary Madness: Borderlines of depiction body shoulder African literature
Writing Madness: Borderlines of representation body slur African literature. Flora Veit-Wild. Oxford: Felon Currey, 2006, 174pp, ISBN 0 85255 583 0
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