Scrapiron Blues
This is a collection of Marechera's last writings, evoking city life with its many disparate facets - from the glittering fashion shops in First Street Mall to the tramps in the alleys, and in Marechera's only known piece in Shona, "The Servants' Ball." What at first sight seems peaceful and harmless, is suddenly disrupted by flashes of madness for, in Marechera's universe, everyday life is always haunted by the nightmares of Zimbabwe's past." "In "The Concentration Camp," Marechera gives a...
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This is a collection of Marechera's last writings, evoking city life with its many disparate facets - from the glittering fashion shops in First Street Mall to the tramps in the alleys, and in Marechera's only known piece in Shona, "The Servants' Ball." What at first sight seems peaceful and harmless, is suddenly disrupted by flashes of madness for, in Marechera's universe, everyday life is always haunted by the nightmares of Zimbabwe's past." "In "The Concentration Camp," Marechera gives a poetic, deeply felt voice to the dread experienced by former inhabitants of the "keeps," the restricted villages of Zimbabwe's War of Liberation. Often he takes a child's view to measure the horrors of adult society. Gentleness paired with sarcasm marks his hardly known children's stories.
GlossaryAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTony Fights Tonight - Pub Stories1Smith in Dead Skin2Dreams Wash Walls5The Power8The Shining11Babel13What Available Reality16Snakes in Tracksuits18Riddled with Opium20A Description of the Universe22The Pinpocketing Roadside Preacher27Decline and Fall28Scrapiron Blues - City Plays31The Alley32The Breakdown Scrapiron Blues48The Servants' Ball61The Servants' Ball (English translation)73Alien to the People85Killwatch96First Street Tumult - More City Stories107First Street Tumult108The Skin of Loneliness112Black Damascus Road123Evening Star over 28 Highlands Avenue125Fragments127When Rainwords Spit Fire - A Township Novella131The Concentration Camp157Fuzzy Goo's Stories for Children211Tony and the Rasta213The Magic Cat217Baboons of the Rainbow225Fuzzy Goo's Guide to the Earth239Thoughts of a Rusty Nail249
