Is literature by Marechera difficult to comprehend? If so, how so and where?
MC: If you look at the sheer intensity of language, the use of intense imagery, the fearlessness and openness in texts like House of Hunger and Black Sunlight you might say Marechera is difficult. However, when you are patient with Marechera and read him in the context of Rhodesia in House of Hunger, open windows into what Rhodesia was.
Having said that, I want to say that Marechera’s Black Sunlight is probably the most obscure of all his literature in that, unlike House of Hunger and Mindblast, it does not pay attention to a specific setting, personality and sensibility. He was trying to write an international book that does not identify with a specific sensibility… Scrapiron Blues is less militant, if not mellow.
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