Flora veit wild biography of christopher
Flora Veit-Wild
Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May )[1] is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Flora veit wild biography of christopher lee A cult hero for young Zimbabweans and a thorn in the flesh of officialdom, Marechera continues to inspire and disturb. Downloaded on Veit-Wild's account of her romance with Marechera is the most intriguing part of this memoir. Marechera as an individual does not come out of it particularly well - indeed, his behaviour towards both Veit-Wild and Veit-Wild's husband, Victor - both of whom allow him to stay at their home for an extended period - is full of emotional blackmail and verbal violence, which at times makes for difficult reading.She has published on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and on the body and madness in African literature.
Life
Flora Wild was born in West Germany in ,[2] and originally studied French and German languages and literature at university.[3]
She first met Dambudzo Marechera in Harare in in the office of writer and editor Charles Mungoshi.[4][5] Veit-Wild and Marachere had a relationship, and remained close friends until his death in [6] Veit-Wild lived in Zimbabwe from to [7] In she met Dieter Riemenschneider in Harare, who subsequently supervised a PhD dissertation by Veit-Wild on the social history of Zimbabwean literature, which she gained in Anglistik from Frankfurt University in [3] She was a founder member of Zimbabwe Women Writers and of the Dambudzo Marechera Trust.[7]
In Veit-Wild became professor of African literatures and cultures at the African Studies Department, Humboldt University of Berlin,[2] where she is now Emeritus Professor of African Literature.[8]
The academic Agnieszka Piotrowska made a film about Veit-Wild's relationship with Marechera, Flora and Dambudzo.[6]
Veit-Wild's memoir They Called You Dambudzo was published in November [9]
Works
- (ed.) The Black Insider.
Harare: Baobab Books.
- Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature. London; New York; Hans Zell Publishers,
- (ed.) Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab Books,
- Dambudzo Marechera: a source book on his life and work.Flora veit wild biography of christopher columbus See 1 more picture. So when I heard about the existence of "They Called You Dambudzo", a memoir by Flora Veit-Wild, I picked it up immediately, and ended up reading it in an extended twenty-four hour sitting. I struggle to disentangle a dense tapestry of memories. But perhaps that is the point.
London; New York: Hans Zell,
- (ed.) Scrapiron blue by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare: Baobab Books,
- (ed. with Anthony Chennell) Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera. Asmara: Africa World Press,
- (ed.Flora veit wild biography of christopher He writes in drips and drabs. Flora Veit-Wild 14 books 2 followers. Ever complex. Please wait
with Dirk Naguschewski) Body, Sexuality, and Gender. New York: Rodopi,
- (ed. with Alain Ricard) Interfaces between the oral and the written / Interfaces entre l'écrit et l'oral. New York: Rodopi,
- Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature. Oxford: James Currey,
- They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir.
Jacana Media Ltd,