Black Sunlight

Dambudzo Marechera

• Title

  Black Sunlight

• Date 2024 [1980]
• ISBN 9780143026204
• Publisher London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Description 192 p.; 8 in.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  In Dambudzo Marechera’s second experimental novel, he parodies African nationalist and racial identifications as part of an argument that notions of an “essential African identity” were often invoked to authorize a number of totalitarian regimes across Africa. Such irreverent literature was criticized upon publication in Zimbabwe in 1980, and Black Sunlight was banned on charges of “Euromodernism” and as a challenge to the concept of nation-building in the newly independent country. (Bloomsbury Publishing)

• Tags Fiction, African literature, African fiction