The biographer Flora Veit-Wild originally published a set of poems by an author from this country, which she claimed she was “the inspiration or catalyst” for. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country home to an author whose Amelia poems were collected posthumously in Cemetery of Mind. That author from this country wrote Black Sunlight and the short story collection The House of Hunger.
ANSWER: Zimbabwe [or Republic of Zimbabwe]
[10m] Dambudzo Marechera wrote his Amelia poems in this language, which he says he took to “as a duck takes to water.” Drew Shaw contrasted Marechera’s view of this language with that of the author of Decolonizing the Mind.
ANSWER: English (Decolonizing the Mind is by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.)
[10e] Reading Heinrich Heine inspired Marechera to choose the name Amelia for his poems in this form. The line “sobs!” at the end of one of the Amelia poems breaks from this typically 14-line form.
ANSWER: sonnets
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