Buried hurts and colliding dreams in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning

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dc.contributor.authorGagiano A.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-13T16:58:25Z
dc.date.available2011-10-13T16:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractZimbabwean author Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning (1998) depicts an intense and tragically concluded love relationship between a middle-aged colonised male labourer, Fumbatha, and an idealistic and much younger woman, Phephelaphi. The context is the ghetto adjoining the city of Bulawayo in late colonial Southern Rhodesia. The article employs the concepts of genealogies and of transmodernity to delineate Vera's reinscription of colonised African men and women in her illocutionary, densely poetic account of the growth of modernity in Africa, tragic because (despite similar, buried hurts) the protagonists' dreams are at odds.
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dc.identifier.citationActa Scientiarum Language and Culture
dc.identifier.citation31
dc.identifier.citation1
dc.identifier.citationhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79958101384&partnerID=40&md5=02eb6f9e00cbfdedbec4d02d2ad0913f
dc.identifier.issn19834675
dc.identifier.other10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i1.3572
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16716
dc.subjectColonialism
dc.subjectDreams
dc.subjectGenealogies
dc.subjectHurt
dc.subjectIllocutionary
dc.subjectModernity
dc.titleBuried hurts and colliding dreams in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning
dc.typeArticle
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