Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive
Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Author Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive, Mushakavanhu interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives—Marechera’s own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two. Here, Mushakavanhu also explores the affective relationship between a critic and his object of study, grappling with the transit between the historical archive and the critical present. In doing so, through text and visuals, the book is a revelation of countless ruptures and of the inexhaustibility of documenting a mercurial subject like Marechera.
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Author Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive, Mushakavanhu interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives—Marechera’s own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two. Here, Mushakavanhu also explores the affective relationship between a critic and his object of study, grappling with the transit between the historical archive and the critical present. In doing so, through text and visuals, the book is a revelation of countless ruptures and of the inexhaustibility of documenting a mercurial subject like Marechera.
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COVID-19 COLLECTIVE DREAM JOURNAL
COVID-19 COLLECTIVE DREAM JOURNAL
Publisher Neptune
A record of dreams and hallucinations experienced by the People of the World during the coronavirus pandemic. A research project examining symbols, mythology and motifs that can be extracted from our collective unconscious during this time of collective isolation. Every dreamer is a storyteller.
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A record of dreams and hallucinations experienced by the People of the World during the coronavirus pandemic. A research project examining symbols, mythology and motifs that can be extracted from our collective unconscious during this time of collective isolation. Every dreamer is a storyteller.
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