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The
Black Insider is a novella in which outcasts holed up inside a ruined and
deserted faculty building tell of their experiences in the post-colonial disaster
zone.
The story reflects the writer's experience of migrancy, and his refusal to
accept the security of belonging - either to a crudely defined 'African identity'
or to the international literary elite.
This volume also contains three short stories, two poems and an introductory
essay by Flora Veit-Wild.
'It is rare to find a writer for whom imaginative fiction is such a passionate
and intimate process of engagement with the world. A terrible beauty is born
out of the urgency of his vision.' Angela Carter
Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) was the author of House of Hunger (1978) and
Black Sunlight (1980). He was joint winner of The Guardian fiction prize in
1979.