Perceiving Pain in African Literature by Z. Norridge

By Z. Norridge

An research of literary bills of struggling with sub-Saharan Africa, this booklet examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the past 40 years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the fewer recognized, it makes use of shut readings to check the non-public, social and political results of representing discomfort in literature.

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4 As Ian Phimister observes, this dissident threat was greatly exaggerated and many ordinary people bore the brunt of the violence. Between 1983 and late 1986, the North Korean trained Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army was responsible for around 20,000 brutal killings of civilians in the area (Phimister 197–8). Vera chooses to describe both a dissident attack and government aggression. She opens her portrayal of this violence in Kezi with the depiction of Nonceba being raped and hurt by a dissident solider later named as Sibaso.

She thinks it is just that, his touch along the chin; instead, it is razorsharp. (79) The moment of pain infliction is passed ‘before she can question’ what is happening and what it means, just as we were told that Thenjiwe would not have enough time in the future to forget. The wounding itself is ‘fleeting’, but the pain afterwards is ‘incessant’ – the ratio of experiences is set as one of momentary crisis followed by lengthy consequences. Throughout the rest of the novel, Vera repeatedly revisits this original scene.

So, although they did not want to give them food or water to drink, they ended up doing so, after asking themselves: why did he go back to fight: and what is his aim in doing so? There must have been a reason. Of course, they were also afraid for their lives. But some, a lot, of homes were burnt down. I cannot say how many and I also cannot give names because I am still frightened. There were also men who were killed for nothing, nothing. (Staunton 82) There is no exploration of what these events meant for Thema personally.

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