Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning

Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Eswatini)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1998

Places

Zimbabwe (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Yvonne Vera belongs to a group of Zimbabwean authors, like Charles Mungoshi, Dambudzo Marechera and Stanley Nyamfukudza, who grew up during the second Chimurenga (1966–79) anti-colonial struggle (chimurenga, in Shona, means “struggle”) which led to the end of white-minority rule in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was then called. They emerged on the African literature scene from the 1980s and the early 1990s and became the witnesses of the failure of decolonisation – after Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980 – to improve the lives of the majority of the country’s citizens. Yvonne Vera was born in 1964 in Bulawayo, present-day Zimbabwe, and died in 2005 in Canada, where she had gone to get medical …

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Citation: Ferreira-Meyers, Karen. "Butterfly Burning". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 September 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6188, accessed 04 May 2024.]

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