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344:(another gifted writer) and mere casual friends were all suspected by Marechera of being involved in his many troubles even when they acted in good faith. In the end he hung around with the down-and-outs who lived on the fringes of the literary establishment, barging into parties and generally getting into trouble and more than once, being bailed out by Currey. To complicate matters, many Africans, including fellow Zimbabwean students, did not feel Marechera was helping his cause by putting on airs, affecting an upper-class English accent and having an eccentric sense of dress. For his disruptive behaviour, he was regularly thrown out of the 401:(1984) was written the year after his return home and comprises three plays, a prose narrative, a collection of poems, and a park-bench diary. The book criticizes the materialism, intolerance, opportunism, and corruption of post-independence Zimbabwe, extending the political debate beyond the question of nationalism to embrace genuine social regeneration. The combination of intense self-scrutiny, cogent social criticism, and open, experimental form appealed to a young generation of Zimbabweans, the so-called mindblast generation, who were seeking new ways of perceiving their roles within the emergent nation. 250:, Marechera struck his professors as a very intelligent but rather anarchic student who had no particular interest in adhering to course syllabi, choosing rather to read whatever struck his fancy. He also had a reputation for being a quarrelsome young man who did not hesitate to fight his antagonists physically, especially in the pubs around Oxford. He began to display erratic behaviour, which may have been a result of excessive drinking or 258:. Marechera threatened to murder certain people and attempted to set the university on fire. He was also famous — or notorious — for having no respect for authority derived from notions of racial or class superiority. For trying to set the college on fire, Marechera was given two options: either to submit to a psychiatric examination or be sent down; he chose the latter, charging that they were mentally raping him. 407:, posthumously published in 1990, is set in a faculty of arts building that offers refuge for a group of intellectuals and artists from an unspecified war outside, which subsequently engulfs them as well. The conversation of the characters centres on African identity and the nature of art, with the protagonist arguing that the African image is merely another chauvinistic figure of authority. 215:, and in interviews, Marechera demonstrates remarkable imagination and skill in the blending of art and real life, using his constrained and traumatic ghetto upbringing to abstract about his father having been either run over by "a 20th-century train" or come home "with a knife sticking from his back" or having been "found in the hospital mortuary with his body riddled with bullets". 227:, his mother and sisters reportedly attempted to come and meet him but he rejected them offhand, accusing the mother of trying to kill him. Indeed, it is known from anecdotal accounts that Marechera never enjoyed strong relations with any member of his family after he came back to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, up until the time he died in 1987. 324:). Marechera became something of an instant celebrity in the literary circles of England. However, his self-destruct button proved irresistible and he constantly caused outrage. At the buffet dinner for the award of the Guardian Fiction Prize, in a tantrum Marechera memorably began to launch plates at a chandelier. Nevertheless, 456:
especially the German scholar Flora Veit-Wild, who has written both a biography and a sourcebook of Marechera's life and works. What Wild misses dismally is the fact that Marechera edited his own life as he went along. Wild seems to take many of the things she got from Marechera as facts. In an article in
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magazine in March 2012, Wild replied to the question about why she "did not write a proper Dambudzo Marechera biography" by saying: "My answer was that I did not want to collapse his multi-faceted personality into one authoritative narrative but rather let the diverse voices speak for themselves. But
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It seems that Marechera thought the British publishing establishment was ripping him off, so he resorted to raiding the Heinemann offices at odd times to ask for his royalties. Still, he lived in dire poverty and his physical health suffered greatly because he did not eat enough and drank too much.
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Marechera remains Zimbabwe's most important cultural product on the creative writing front. Since his death, dozens of younger writers and many of his colleagues have written numerous accounts and biographies detailing his troubled life and works. In the 1990s, the most prominent were foreigners,
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In an interview, Marechera said of himself: "I think I am the doppelganger whom, until I appeared, African literature had not yet met." This is an accurate assessment of Marechera's role in shocking the reader into looking at himself anew through the eyes of the other. His individualism, literary
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Prison in 1977 for possession of marijuana, and a decision regarding his deportation. He joined the rootless communities around Oxford and other places, sleeping in friends' sitting-rooms and writing various fictional and poetic pieces on park benches and being regularly mugged by thugs and
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in central London, and it is believed that this is where he finished writing his first book. It was thus from the combined experiences at the University of Rhodesia, Oxford and vagrancy on the streets of England and Wales that Marechera's most celebrated work,
172:, short story writer, playwright and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry (also posthumous). His first book, a fiction collection entitled 222:
gave considerable weight to an account given by Marechera's older brother, Michael, about what was said to be a destructive element in the younger Marechera's life. When Marechera returned from London and was made Writer-in-Residency at the
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this is not the whole truth. I could not write his life story because my own life was so intricately entangled with his." She then described in detail her very personal involvement with him over an 18-month period.
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for African and Afrocentric scholars and students. Some accounts suggest that Marechera married a British woman but not much is known about the union.
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experimentation, and iconoclasm ensure that his work resists narrow definitions; it is constantly shifting and crossing boundaries.
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in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in
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terrorized by the police for vagrancy. During this period, he also lived for many months in the squatting community at
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has stated that "today, Marechera is an icon for experimental fiction and cultural rebellion in African literature.""
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He grew up amid racial discrimination, poverty, and violence. He attended St. Augustine's Mission,
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Marechera returned to the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1982 to assist in shooting the film of
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In search of original accounts of Marechera's childhood and upbringing, the German researcher
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Veit-Wild, Flora, "Dambudzo Marechera: A Preliminary Annotated Bibliography".
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Regarded as signalling a new trend of incisive and visionary African writing,
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At this point, Marechera's life became troubled, even landing him in
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Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century
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Currey once described Marechera as "a one-man civil war". See
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Marechera's poetry was published posthumously under the title
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before his death there five years later in 1987, from an
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Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work
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Marechera

Rusape
Southern Rhodesia
Harare
Zimbabwean
University of Zimbabwe
University of Oxford
The House of Hunger
Guardian Fiction Prize
Zimbabwean
novelist
The House of Hunger
Guardian Fiction Prize
African literature
Rusape
Southern Rhodesia
Shona
The House of Hunger
Flora Veit-Wild
University of Zimbabwe
Penhalonga
New College, Oxford
University of Oxford
culture shock
schizophrenia
Cardiff
Tolmers Square
The House of Hunger
Oxford University

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