Comments on: Zimbabwe: another Dambudzo Marechera? http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:58:09 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick Midzi http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/comment-page-1/#comment-1485199 Patrick Midzi Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:06:11 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/#comment-1485199 Chimunhu has expressed the reverence Zimbabweans hold for Dambudzo's work better than I did. For any Zimbabwean who has been to school not to have Dambudzo is something that you just don't admit to. This "love affair" has sometimes clouded our sight to some of the (dare I say it!?) flaws in some of the later works of the giant. Unfortunately, this in itself is flawed because the comparison is between Dambudzo at the height of his powers & Dambudzo when his "literary horizon had receded." Chimunhu has expressed the reverence Zimbabweans hold for Dambudzo’s work better than I did. For any Zimbabwean who has been to school not to have Dambudzo is something that you just don’t admit to. This “love affair” has sometimes clouded our sight to some of the (dare I say it!?) flaws in some of the later works of the giant. Unfortunately, this in itself is flawed because the comparison is between Dambudzo at the height of his powers & Dambudzo when his “literary horizon had receded.”

]]> By: Chimunhu Modaly http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/comment-page-1/#comment-1455456 Chimunhu Modaly Sat, 17 May 2008 12:59:45 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/#comment-1455456 I think Dambudzo's works are of a great quality in all angles, and that anyone being compared to him should simply take that as a compliment, and that it is inevitable for any writer, from Zimbabwe, to be compared in one way or another, to Dambudzo. May I take this opportunity to kindly ask for the availability of the biography, the thicker text from Flora, of Dambudzo. I have seen the book once from a stranger but all my efforts to locate the book in Zimbabwe in all the bookshops. I am prepared to do the paying, of course. I think Dambudzo’s works are of a great quality in all angles, and that anyone being compared to him should simply take that as a compliment, and that it is inevitable for any writer, from Zimbabwe, to be compared in one way or another, to Dambudzo.

May I take this opportunity to kindly ask for the availability of the biography, the thicker text from Flora, of Dambudzo. I have seen the book once from a stranger but all my efforts to locate the book in Zimbabwe in all the bookshops. I am prepared to do the paying, of course.

]]> By: Patrick Midzi http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/comment-page-1/#comment-1191004 Patrick Midzi Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:48:49 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/#comment-1191004 The similarities which exist between the two writers are not in their poetry but in their stories. Tinashe is a polished writer, and I think this is due to his background as a literary critic, but his stories remind me of a younger Dambudzo still learning his craft. Which is sad because Tinashe could be an ernomous talent in his own right. Dambudzo is like an ever present shadow behind the work of any Zimbabwean who writes anything. We can't run away from that. His influence is great, but I also think it is slighlty sinister. The similarities which exist between the two writers are not in their poetry but in their stories. Tinashe is a polished writer, and I think this is due to his background as a literary critic, but his stories remind me of a younger Dambudzo still learning his craft. Which is sad because Tinashe could be an ernomous talent in his own right. Dambudzo is like an ever present shadow behind the work of any Zimbabwean who writes anything. We can’t run away from that. His influence is great, but I also think it is slighlty sinister.

]]> By: Jennifer Cascadia http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/comment-page-1/#comment-1166105 Jennifer Cascadia Fri, 25 May 2007 05:32:53 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/05/zimbabwe-another-dambudzo-marechera/#comment-1166105 Eshu has a very good point -- you shouldn't try to read Marechera without expecting his writing to challenge you. He is a very psychologically adept writer and he is interesting in sociological and psychological gaps in the mindsets of his readers. Eshu has a very good point — you shouldn’t try to read Marechera without expecting his writing to challenge you. He is a very psychologically adept writer and he is interesting in sociological and psychological gaps in the mindsets of his readers.

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