Garikai Mutasa
Zimbabwean novelist (born 1952)
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Garikai N. Mutasa (born 1952) is a Zimbabwean novelist.[1] His novel The Contact (1985) is a victory story of the ZANLA guerrillas, based on Soviet socialist realist models. [2][3] He previously trained as a teacher at Gweru Teacher's College[4]
Adrian A. Roscoe, "Garikai N. Mutasa", The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945.
Peter O. Stummer, Christopher Balme, Fusion of Cultures? 1996, p. 166, "Nationalist histomythographies were written. One of the victory novels is Garikai Mutasa's The Contact. Its outlook of friends versus enemies is binary and oppositional, but not along lines of race — as in the fictional white fascist accounts of the "Old North/West" - rather, along lines prefabricated by the Soviet school of socialist realism."
Ernest Emenyo̲nu, War in African Literature Today: A Review, 2008 (0852555717), p. 89: "The story of the war is narrated from the third person singular, a perspective that allows the omniscient narrator to supply the reader with detailed information about the potentially conflicting war narratives in the novel. The Contact highlights the physical and military prowess of the Zanla guerrillas and the author, Garikai Mutasa does not hesitate to award all the major military victories to the armed guerrillas."
