Literature in Zimbabwe: Suggestions Where to Begin

Chinodya, Shimmer. Harvest of Thorns. Harare: Baobab, 1989.

Dangwaremba, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. Seattle: Seal, 1997.

Mungoshi, Charles. 1975 Waiting for the Rain. London: Heinemann, 1975.

_____. Coming of the Dry Season. Harare: ZPH, 1981.

Hove, Chenjerai. Bones. Harare: Baobab, 1988.

_____. Ancestors. Harare: College Press, 1996.

Marechera, Dambudzo. House of Hunger. Heinemann: London, 1978.

Mungoshi, Charles. 1975 Waiting for the Rain. London: Heinemann, 1975.

_____. Coming of the Dry Season. Harare: ZPH, 1981.

Vera, Yvonne. Nehanda. Harare: Baobab, 1993.

_____. Under the Tongue. Harare: Baobab, 1996???. (winner of Comonwealth writers' prize, Africa section 1996 or 97)

Zimunya, Musaemura. Country Dawns and City Lights. (poetry) (Musa is in the English Dept at UZ)

Veit-Wild, Flora. Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature. Harare: Boabab, 1993.


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