Flora veit wild biography of christopher
Flora Veit-Wild
Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May )[1] is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She has published on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and on the body and madness in African literature.
Life
Flora Wild was born in West Germany in ,[2] and originally studied French and German languages and literature at university.[3]
She first met Dambudzo Marechera in Harare in in the office of writer and editor Charles Mungoshi.[4][5] Veit-Wild and Marachere had a relationship, and remained close friends until his death in [6] Veit-Wild lived in Zimbabwe from to [7] In she met Dieter Riemenschneider in Harare, who subsequently supervised a PhD dissertation by Veit-Wild on the social history of Zimbabwean literature, which she gained in Anglistik from Frankfurt University in [3] She was a founder member of Zimbabwe Women Writers and of the Dambudzo Marechera Trust.[7]
In Veit-Wild became professor of African literatures and cultures at the African Studies Department, Humboldt University of Berlin,[2] where she is now Emeritus Professor of African Literature.[8]
The academic Agnieszka Piotrowska made a film about Veit-Wild's relationship with Marechera, Flora and Dambudzo.[6]
Veit-Wild's memoir They Called You Dambudzo was published in November [9]
Works
- (ed.) The Black Insider.Flora veit wild biography of christopher columbus Gautam Bhatia. The final part of the memoir follows Marechera's death of AIDS it turns out that he probably passed on HIV to both Veit-Wild and Victor , Veit-Wild's return to Germany and her taking up a Humboldt University professorship, her guardianship of Marechera's literary through editing and publishing work left unfinished or unpublished upon his death, and her own struggle with clinical depression. This memoir explores this: the couple's first encounter in , amidst the euphoria of the newly independent Zimbabwe; the tumultuous months when the homeless writer moved in with his lover and her family; the bouts of creativity once he had his own flat followed by feelings of abandonment; the increasing despair about a love affair that could not stand up against reality; and the illness of the writer and his death of HIV related pneumonia in August One thread will be caught up in another.
Harare: Baobab Books.
- Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature. London; New York; Hans Zell Publishers,
- (ed.) Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab Books,
- Dambudzo Marechera: a source book on his life and work.
London; New York: Hans Zell,
- (ed.) Scrapiron blue by Dambudzo Marechera. Harare: Baobab Books,
- (ed.Flora veit wild biography of christopher On the one hand she became the custodian of his life andwork, on the other she had to live with her own HIV infection andthe ensuing threats to her health. My gaze will often be filtered through your eyes, your poems. One thread will be caught up in another. At the end of his life at the age of 35 years, he leaves little of what he was capable of.
with Anthony Chennell) Emerging perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera. Asmara: Africa World Press,
- (ed. with Dirk Naguschewski) Body, Sexuality, and Gender. New York: Rodopi,
- (ed.Flora veit wild biography of christopher lee This book is a memoir with a 'double heartbeat'. Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature. Community Reviews. A cult hero for young Zimbabweans and a thorn in the flesh of officialdom, Marechera continues to inspire and disturb.
with Alain Ricard) Interfaces between the oral and the written / Interfaces entre l'écrit et l'oral. New York: Rodopi,
- Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature. Oxford: James Currey,
- They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir. Jacana Media Ltd,