Genre and Gender in Butterfly Burning: Yvonne Vera’s Elliptical Writing
Set in the late 1940s in Southern Rhodesia, Yvonne Vera’s novel Butterfly Burning tells the tragic story of Phephelaphi, a young woman who tries to find her own voice and ends up burning herself. In order to express the feeling of incompleteness of the young woman, the author resorts to a form of wr...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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