| Title: | Use of historical names in selected Zimbabwean texts |
| Author: | Tendai Mangena |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a III-a: Conventional / unconventional in onomastics, p. 943 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-671-8 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | When we look for significant names in literature, the tendency is to find the type of literary onomastics which Kemp Malone has called “meaningful fictive names”. Such names are mainly the author’s inventions, but in this paper I discuss the different creative ways of using names of historical persons in literature. I demonstrate this point by referring to how historical persons’ identities are recreated in Gappah’s “At the Sound of the Last Post” and Chielo’s The Trial of Robert Mugabe. |
| Key words: | Zimbabwean literature, history, fiction, symbols, literary onomastics |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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