Anthony Chennells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Chennells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Chennells |
| SIGNATURE | CHENNELLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zimbabwe |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Sweetest Dream
In her later work, Lessing refers frequently, if in passing, to Roman Catholicism, often as part of her growing interest in spirituality, which began while she was writing The Golden Notebook. Some of these references are in the accounts of her travels in Zimbabwe, but they are also to be found in her autobiographies, reviews and occasional journalism. Because of their frequency, she cannot be regarded as entirely indifferent to the church. A val…
Introduction
Biography became an important method of reconstructing the past in Britain and America only in the nineteenth century and by the second quarter of the twentieth century it had, in radical circles at least, come to be regarded as inferior historiography. The cult of the great leader or the record of a person possessed of exceptional qualities may once have justified life stories but in a discipline that was becoming preoccupied with the movements …
Introduction
A recent study of Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Autobiography offers a window through which most notable writers from South Africa use self-representation to question and define notions of self, how they relate earlier to later selves and to others, thereby constituting collective and personal identities (Coullie, Meyer, Ngwenya & Olver 2006: 1). The volume foregrounds auto-/biographers' acts of narration through the genre of…
The Authority of Presence
Judith Todd's Through the Darkness (2007) is an account of her life in Zimbabwe since independence and is constructed from notes and letters written over the years. The article addresses the implications of Todd's narrative method which at times reads like a diary with the disjunctions, passing references, and more considered observations that characterise the diary as a narrative form. The article argues that these disjunctions convey something …
Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesian Fiction
Imagining and living the exotic
The paper discusses some early Rhodesian novels within the context of nineteenth‐century debates about the exotic and recent theories about exoticism. The exotic has various temporal and spatial locations that are always sites of desire constructed from what is perceived to be absent in the present. Technological developments and radical social changes created different and competing absences in Victorian England and the paper compares responses …
Just a story
Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne trilogy begins in romance, moves into satire and concludes with a reflexive narrative. This essay explores the basis for Smith's stylistic decisions in Rhodesian history. Events in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe during the period of the composition of these novels cloud the clarity of the author's few moral certainties: his narrative can register the whole bloody business of the Zimbabwean war only with scepticism, and the narrative …
The Sweetest Dream
In her later work, Lessing refers frequently, if in passing, to Roman Catholicism, often as part of her growing interest in spirituality, which began while she was writing The Golden Notebook. Some of these references are in the accounts of her travels in Zimbabwe, but they are also to be found in her autobiographies, reviews and occasional journalism. Because of their frequency, she cannot be regarded as entirely indifferent to the church. A val…
Just a story
Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne trilogy begins in romance, moves into satire and concludes with a reflexive narrative. This essay explores the basis for Smith's stylistic decisions in Rhodesian history. Events in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe during the period of the composition of these novels cloud the clarity of the author's few moral certainties: his narrative can register the whole bloody business of the Zimbabwean war only with scepticism, and the narrative …
Just a story
Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne trilogy begins in romance, moves into satire and concludes with a reflexive narrative. This essay explores the basis for Smith's stylistic decisions in Rhodesian history. Events in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe during the period of the composition of these novels cloud the clarity of the author's few moral certainties: his narrative can register the whole bloody business of the Zimbabwean war only with scepticism, and the narrative …
Imagining and living the exotic
The paper discusses some early Rhodesian novels within the context of nineteenth‐century debates about the exotic and recent theories about exoticism. The exotic has various temporal and spatial locations that are always sites of desire constructed from what is perceived to be absent in the present. Technological developments and radical social changes created different and competing absences in Victorian England and the paper compares responses …
Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesian Fiction
Introduction
Biography became an important method of reconstructing the past in Britain and America only in the nineteenth century and by the second quarter of the twentieth century it had, in radical circles at least, come to be regarded as inferior historiography. The cult of the great leader or the record of a person possessed of exceptional qualities may once have justified life stories but in a discipline that was becoming preoccupied with the movements …
Introduction
A recent study of Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Autobiography offers a window through which most notable writers from South Africa use self-representation to question and define notions of self, how they relate earlier to later selves and to others, thereby constituting collective and personal identities (Coullie, Meyer, Ngwenya & Olver 2006: 1). The volume foregrounds auto-/biographers' acts of narration through the genre of…
The Authority of Presence
Judith Todd's Through the Darkness (2007) is an account of her life in Zimbabwe since independence and is constructed from notes and letters written over the years. The article addresses the implications of Todd's narrative method which at times reads like a diary with the disjunctions, passing references, and more considered observations that characterise the diary as a narrative form. The article argues that these disjunctions convey something …
The Sweetest Dream
In her later work, Lessing refers frequently, if in passing, to Roman Catholicism, often as part of her growing interest in spirituality, which began while she was writing The Golden Notebook. Some of these references are in the accounts of her travels in Zimbabwe, but they are also to be found in her autobiographies, reviews and occasional journalism. Because of their frequency, she cannot be regarded as entirely indifferent to the church. A val…
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