GREAT HOUSES OF STONE: STUDIES ABOUT THE BODY IN BONES
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Feb 28, 2018
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Zimbabwe; african literature; body; post-colonial studies.
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The present article analyzes the relations established between the Body, the Land and the Memory in the novel Bones (1988), of the Zimbabwean poet and novelist Chenjerai Hove. The study of the novel revealed the deep relationship that the natives of Rhodesia, nowadays called Zimbabwe, had with their lands and their ancestors. The objective of this paper is to present the profound changes that happened in the culture of the Shona ethnicity after the arrival of the colonizers and the missionaries in the end of the XIX Century. The perspective adopted to this critique observes the characters’ native bodies in a intense struggle between two misbalanced forces that used to be the fundaments of the ancient Zimbabwean reality.
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Brito, G. S. M. (2018). GREAT HOUSES OF STONE: STUDIES ABOUT THE BODY IN BONES. Journal of Black Brazilian Researchers Association, 10(24), 315–338. Retrieved from https://abpnrevista.org.br/site/article/view/426
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