Monday 16 June 2008

chapter on Scrapiron Blues

Theme: the social psychology of the daemonic (as animism) along with a Modernist aesthetic structure makes for the good story.

See pg s77 ff. under section “animism as relational epistemology”, which refers to cutting trees into parts versus talking to trees.

Nurit Bird-David et al.

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Marechera’s way of writing – sounding out situations, hence fragmented.

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