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Language, Thought, Art & Existence: Creative Nonfictions
Contributor(s): Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos (Author)
ISBN: 9956762105     ISBN-13: 9789956762101
Publisher: Langaa RPCID
OUR PRICE:   $33.44  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 8" (0.54 lbs) 220 pages
 
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This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa. The collection continues with Zimbabwe's Tendai Mwanaka's creative non-fiction ideology of presenting non-fiction in a creative, fresh, easy reading, simple language. With most of the essays driven by personal stories, the author ably renders them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers from the scholarly to the journalistic and the general. The pieces are grouped according to the topics, with the language essays starting the book, followed by thought, existential, and art essays. In tune with the adage the personal is political, Mwanaka lets the personal drive these essays as he tries to investigate and conversationally navigate his thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experience on language, existence and art. This is an invaluable contribution to the academic establishment, social theorists, linguists, literary theorists, journalists, activists and the general readership.


Contributor Bio(s): Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos: - Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, Published books include among others, Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now (creative nonfiction), Finding a Way Home (stories novel), Revolution (poems). He is also a published and exhibited visual artist. He is as well, a sound/musical artist using mostly traditional instrumentation like the mbira.