The Nation and the Subaltern in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning

Yvonne Vera’s death in 2005 brought to a tragic close the career of one of Zimbabwe’s, indeed Africa’s, more engaging contemporary writers. But her powerful novel, Butterfly Burning continues to mirror an aspect of Vera’s enduring concern: the place of African women in the context of power both wit...

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Main Author: Obi Nwakanma
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2017-03-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/2023