Tsitsi Dangarembga: Is there a Divide between Literature and Politics? BookRising Podcast

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Is there a Divide between Literature and Politics?

BookRising Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bookrising/id1600063116?i=1000547281620

Novelist, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga joined host Bhakti Shringarpure from Harare, Zimbabwe. Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize which honors literary merit as well as fierce political commitment. The conversation explored the shape and state of "literature engagée" or the literature of commitment today and Dangarembga said that she sees no choice but to narrate the reality of Zimbabwean society and people.