Language, Thought, Art and Existence Creative Nonfictions / Tendai R. Mwanaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mwanaka, Tendai R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative nonfiction, African (English).

Genre:

Essays.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 208 pages) :) color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017

Summary:

This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa. The collection continues with Zimbabwe's Tendai Mwanaka's creative non-fiction ideology of presenting non-fiction in a creative, fresh, easy reading, simple language. With most of the essays driven by personal stories, the author ably renders them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers from the scholarly to the journalistic and the general. The pieces are grouped according to the topics, with the language essays starting the book, followed by thought, existential, and art essays. In tune with the adage the personal is political, Mwanaka lets the personal drive these essays as he tries to investigate and conversationally navigate his thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experience on language, existence and art. This is an invaluable contribution to the academic establishment, social theorists, linguists, literary theorists, journalists, activists and the general readership.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Language, thought and reality

2. The writer's experience

3. Memories and memoir writing

4. The Caine Workshop and African writing reflections : how I decided on "Notes from Mai Mujuru's breast"

5. My Volmoed journey

6. Nyanga, December 2015 : in search of ancient ways

7. Collectivism vs. Individualism

8. Desire and pasion

9. Death (life)

10. Doubt

11. Dear John

12. It's not about me : dairies (2010-2011)

13. Age has no numbers

14. Gathering evidence : dairies (2012-2013)

15. Running away from the lotus position

16. The evidence of things said : dairies (2014-2015)

17. Coldplay's X&Y, angels, him and her

18. A date with Jonathon Matimba : an appreciation of the legendary Zimbabwean sculptor

19. Music and me.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956763696

9956763691

OCLC:

1004391201