“I really tried to put terrorism into a historical perspective, neither applauding their acts nor condemning them. The photographer does not take sides; he just takes the press photographs.”  In an unspecified setting the stream-of-consciousness narrative of this cult novel traces the fortunes of a group of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist-capitalist opposition. The protagonist is photojournalist Chris, whose camera lens becomes the device through which the plot is cleverly unraveled. In Dambudzo Marechera’s second experimental novel, he parodies African nationalist and racial identifications as part of an argument that notions of an ‘essential African identity’ were often invoked to authorize a number of totalitarian regimes across Africa. Such irreverent, avant-garde literature was criticized upon publication in Zimbabwe in 1980, and Black Sunlight was banned on charges of ‘Euromodernism’ and as a challenge to the concept of nation-building in the newly independent country.

Black Sunlight (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Marechera, Dambudzo

Literary

Penguin Global

Joint winner of "The Guardian" Fiction Prize, this book is a collection of stories about growing up in Rhodesia.

The House of Hunger: A Novella and Short Stories

Pantheon Books

House Of Hunger

Heinemann

House of Hunger Short Stories (African Writers Series, No. 207)

House of Hunger (African Writers Series, No. 207)

House of Hunger not only won The Guardian fiction prize but stunned the imagination of readers with its view of the slums of colonial Salisbury. Black Sunlight gives a similar cockroach-eye view of London.

Black Sunlight (African Writers Series)

British & Irish

This volume features startling stories of distinction by a remarkable writer who vividly describes the township squalor of growing up in settler-exploited Rhodesia.

The House of Hunger

Children's Books

Scrapiron Blues (African Writers Library)

Veit-Wild, Flora

United States

Africa World Pr

This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional cultural and political pieties.  "Cemetery of Mind" demands serious attention and reveals, through the sharpest of the poet's voice, the real world inside us all.

Cemetery of Mind (African Writers Library)

Poetry

This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional cultural and political pieties. "Cemetery of Mind" demands serious attention and reveals, through the sharpest of the poet's voice, the real world inside us all.

History & Criticism

Outcasts inside a ruined and deserted faculty building tell of their experiences in the post-colonial disaster zone. The story reflects the writer's experience of migrancy, and his refusal of the security of belonging - either to an African identity or to the international literary elite.

The Black Insider (African Writers Library)

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Black Sunlight (Penguin Classics)

The House of Hunger: A Novella and Short Stories

House Of Hunger

House of Hunger (African Writers Series, No. 207)

Black Sunlight (African Writers Series)

The House of Hunger

Scrapiron Blues (African Writers Library)

Cemetery of Mind (African Writers Library)

Cemetery of Mind (African Writers Library)

The Black Insider (African Writers Library)