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Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960

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A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African cities and Zimbabwean cultural life.

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This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explorewhat historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination.
Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters...