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This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel 'Butterfly Burning', which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect 'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others are in effect biographies of 'characters'. The book draws upon and quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white urban social history. TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press.

Vera, Yvonne, --- Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) --- History --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:96G --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Vera, Yvonne. --- Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African. --- African cities. --- Bulawayo Burning. --- Butterfly Burning. --- Rhodes Professor of Race Relations. --- Social History. --- TERENCE RANGER. --- University of Oxford. --- Yvonne Vera. --- Zimbabwean cultural life. --- black and white urban social history. --- cultural dimensions. --- experiential. --- historical research. --- historiography. --- literary imagination. --- southern African cities. --- urban oral memory.