Join Books.org — it's free

Short Story Collections (Single Author), African Fiction, African Diaspora (outside U.S.) - General & Miscellaneous, African Literature Anthologies, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction
The Black Insider by Dambudzo Marechera β€” book cover

The Black Insider

by Dambudzo Marechera
Write a review
Log in to track your reading progress.

Overview

This was the first volume of Dambudzo Marechera's work to appear since his death in 1987. The title piece, the major work in this collection, was written in London in 1978. It has been edited here by Marechera's biographer, Flora Veit-Wild, together with three short stories and two poems from the same period. Veit-Wild's introduction provides a vivid picture of the young Zimbabwean's life in Britain as a student and writer. The Black Inside develops the preoccupations of his award-winning House of Hunger by exploring, in his devastatingly honest way, the predicaments of exile and the black identity, and examining the realities of living under the threat of the Bomb.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Log in to write one.

Book Details

Published
June 13, 1990
Publisher
Baobab Books
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780949229168

More by Dambudzo Marechera

Similar books