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Professor Sam Durrant from Leeds University delivers seminar "'Livable Places’: Women, Land and Animism in Yvonne Vera’s 'The Stone Virgins'" at the Master's Degree in Advanced English Studies at the University of Alicante
Professor Sam Durrant from Leeds University delivers seminar "'Livable Places’: Women, Land and Animism in Yvonne Vera’s 'The Stone Virgins'" at the Master's Degree in Advanced English Studies at the University of Alicante

Published: 15.01.2025

Yvonne Vera's novel The Stone Virgins is a female-centred and innovative take on the Matabeleland massacres that took place in post-independence Zimbabwe in the 1980s.  The atrocities still cast a long shadow in contemporary Zimbabwean society. In his  exploration of Vera's novel, Professor Durrant advocates a dis-enclosed form of animism as key to reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
 

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