The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as a heroic being.

The cultural trends underlying Zimbabwe's transition from colonialism to independence and from relative prosperity to the present crisis, are broadly represented in this new work of the Zimbabwean novel and contemporary politics. It examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed writers, against a backdrop of contemporary politics and literary history. The focus is on problems of literary space, which...