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Reincarnating Marechera : notes on a speculative archive / Tinashe Mushakavanhu.

Mushakavanhu, Tinashe, (author.). Ugly Duckling Presse, (publisher.). McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), (printer.).

Summary:

"Dambudzo Marechera's death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive, Mushakavanhu interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives--Marechera's own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two. Here, Mushakavanhu also explores the affective relationship between a critic and his object of study, grappling with the transit between the historical archive and the critical present. In doing so, through text and visuals, the book is a revelation of countless ruptures and of the inexhaustibility of documenting a mercurial subject like Marechera."--Publisher's website, viewed July 13, 2021.

Record details

ISBN: 1946433608
ISBN: 9781946433602
Physical Description: 59 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition, first printing.
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
Distributor: [Berkeley, California] : SPD/Small Press Distribution ;
Manufacturer: [Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Edition of 1,000 copies. Series design by chuck kuan and Sarah Lawson, Typeset by Neelufar Franklin. Type is New Century Schoolbook and Courier. Cover paper and flyleaf from French Paper Co. Printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Flyleaf printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Biographical or Historical Data:	"Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Zimbabwean writer, scholar, and founding partner of Black Chalk & Co., a fugitive creative agency that operates between Harare and Richmond,VA. His most recent publication is Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats (Black Chalk & Co.). He has also co-edited Visa Stories: Experiences Between Law and Migration (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry (The Conversation Paperpress). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa."--Publisher's website, viewed July 13, 2021.