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This Mournable BodyBook

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Who uses, recommends or left This Mournable Body, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

1 person

British literary historian and critic; professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham; author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024).
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And then you have This Mournable Body, which is set after independence, where everything is just getting corrupted and relentlessly going wrong.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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