Yvonne Vera Bücher
19. September 1964 – 7. April 2005
Yvonne Vera ist für ihre poetische Prosa und ihre widerstandsfähigen weiblichen Charaktere bekannt, die sich tief mit schwierigen Themen und der herausfordernden Vergangenheit Zimbabwes auseinandersetzen. Ihre Romane werden für ihre einzigartige Perspektive auf die postkoloniale afrikanische Literatur geschätzt und untersuchen die psychologischen Auswirkungen der Geschichte auf den Einzelnen. Vera konzentriert sich auf das Innenleben ihrer Charaktere, wobei ihre Schriften oft die harten Realitäten widerspiegeln, denen sie ausgesetzt waren.
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Erzählungen
A gentle but fearless book, The Stone Virgins explores the emotional and physical scars caused by warfare, and enables us to respond truthfully to the catastrophic depths of conflict.
Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late 1940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much younger Phephelaphi, he"wants her like the land beneath his feet from which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a mesh too tight and too intricate to allow her to escape her circumstances on her own.Vera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In Butterfly Burning she captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.
