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Flora Veit-Wild
Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May )[1] is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She has published on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and on the body and madness in African literature.
Life
Flora Wild was born in West Germany in ,[2] and originally studied French and German languages and literature at university.[3]
She first met Dambudzo Marechera in Harare in in the office of writer and editor Charles Mungoshi.[4][5] Veit-Wild and Marachere had a relationship, and remained close friends until his death in [6] Veit-Wild lived in Zimbabwe from to [7] In she met Dieter Riemenschneider in Harare, who subsequently supervised a PhD dissertation by Veit-Wild on the social history of Zimbabwean literature, which she gained in Anglistik from Frankfurt University in [3] She was a founder member of Zimbabwe Women Writers and of the Dambudzo Marechera Trust.[7]
In Veit-Wild became professor of African literatures and cultures at the African Studies Department, Humboldt University of Berlin,[2] where she is now Emeritus Professor of African Literature.[8]
The academic Agnieszka Piotrowska made a film about Veit-Wild's relationship with Marechera, Flora and Dambudzo.[6]
Veit-Wild's memoir They Called You Dambudzo was published in November [9]
Works
- (ed.) The Black Insider.Flora veit wild biography of christopher Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Flora Veit-Wild. How shall I tell our story?
Harare: Baobab Books.
- Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature. London; New York; Hans Zell Publishers,
- (ed.) Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab Books,
- Dambudzo Marechera: a source book on his life and work.
London; New York: Hans Zell,
- (ed.) Scrapiron blue by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare: Baobab Books,
- (ed.Flora veit wild biography of christopher lee Preparing your PDF for download There was a problem with your download, please contact the server administrator. Download Flyer. Imprint: James Currey. Her numerous publications include studies of body, madness, sexuality and gender in Anglophone and Francophone African writing as well as code-switching and linguistic innovation in Shona literature.
with Anthony Chennell) Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera. Asmara: Africa World Press,
- (ed. with Dirk Naguschewski) Body, Sexuality, and Gender. New York: Rodopi,
- (ed.Flora veit wild biography of christopher columbus Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature. Her numerous publications include studies of body, madness, sexuality and gender in Anglophone and Francophone African writing as well as code-switching and linguistic innovation in Shona literature. Miho Kinnas: This book is a personal biography: a biography of love between the writer lovers, told often in an intimate second person voice. After reading such an intense and passionate memoir so masterfully crafted and narrated by an accomplished literary critic, one can only recommend it most strongly to every lover of literature. Your purchase has been completed.
with Alain Ricard) Interfaces between the oral and the written / Interfaces entre l'écrit et l'oral. New York: Rodopi,
- Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature. Oxford: James Currey,
- They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir. Jacana Media Ltd,