Flora veit wild biography of christopher
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.
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 Through a wide-ranging collection of personal interviews, memoirs by friends and fellow writers like Nadine Gordimer, previously unpublished manuscripts, photographs and memorabilia she explores the man and the myth. Analytics Analytics. In the meantime, their love grows to veld fire proportions. Years after his death, Dambudzo Marechera is still one of the most exciting and subversive writers Africa has produced.
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 The book, with its extensive bibliography and array of previously inaccessible primary and secondary sources, is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in contemporary African literature. Authors Africa World Press, Inc. So when I heard about the existence of "They Called You Dambudzo", a memoir by Flora Veit-Wild, I picked it up immediately, and ended up reading it in an extended twenty-four hour sitting. Flora Veit-Wild 14 books 2 followers.
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,