Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive

By Tinashe Mushavakahu

Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946433608
• ISBN13: 9781946433602
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.8"