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Title:Nature and identity in the poetry of Bart Wolffe
Author:Mthatiwa, Syned
Year:2014
Periodical:Research in African Literatures (ISSN 0034-5210)
Volume:45
Issue:4
Pages:70-88
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:poetry
Whites
literary criticism
About person:Bart Wolffe (1952-2016)ISNI
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v045/45.4.mthatiwa.pdf
Abstract:The poetry of Bart Wolffe, the self-exiled white Zimbabwean writer, exposes the role of the environment and life experiences in the shaping of identity. For Wolffe, nature signifies refuge, tranquility, and harmony; it is a sanctuary, more accommodating than the violent and harsh human society. In this paper, the author advances the argument that a reading of Wolffe's poetry shows that he uses nature to construct his identity and belonging and as a means of self-definition, that is, of trying to make sense of himself. But his project of belonging and identity construction in postcolonial Zimbabwe is somehow complicated by his whiteness or positionality. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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