For Want of a Totem
- Zonipha is a rural girl newly inaugurated into the city as a domestic worker. Ambitious but righteous, she seeks to improve herself. Life disagrees and Zonipha finds herself ensnared by an abusive man, her employer. Unable to escape, she falls pregnant with a child who can never know his father, and following her unhappy decision will never know his mother. Fate intervenes at a tuckshop when Eugenia, who has longed for child, discovers the abandoned baby. In doing so, she pioneers a movement that seems to defy culture as she tries to encourage the idea of adoption. For Want of a Totem explores the meaning of family and what it means to be a parent. If a child is abandoned, who must raise her. This short but moving novel raised important questions about culture and its adaptability as it responds to contemporary and sometimes contentious issues.
| Author: | Vivienne Ndlovu |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-596016 |
| ISBN: | 1-77922-330-7 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-77922-330-2 |
| Publisher: | Weaver Press |
| Place of publication: | Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/04/28 |
| Page Number: | 98 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 478272049 |
| Sammlungen: | Afrika südlich der Sahara |
| Afrika südlich der Sahara / Paket Afrikanistik | |
| Licence (German): |  FID Afrikastudien |
