Alle Lansu interviews Dambudzo Marechera about Oxford - Part 2

This is the second of two short excerpts from a very long and important interview that Marechera gave to the Dutch journalist Alle Lansu in February 1986 at Marechera's flat, 8 Sloane Court, in Harare.
In this second excerpt, Lansu asks Marechera about when and how he wrote his internationally-acclaimed book The House of Hunger. Marechera also talks about his publication record before working with Heinemann - his eventual publisher - his rejection of the kind of English literature that he studied at Oxford, his literary influences, and racism.
Part one can be found via this link: • Alle Lansu interviews ...
The interview is copyright Alle Lansu and can be found in full on the Marechera Archive website, based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: rs.cms.hu-berl...
The interview is being shared as part of the Disruptive Dialogues project, a joint venture from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University that seeks to explore Marechera's life, work, and legacies: www.torch.ox.a...
The photograph of New College that accompanies this audio is by Flora Veit-Wild (1989) and is copyright the Dambudzo Marechera Trust. It can be found on the Marechera archive website: rs.cms.hu-berl...
A partial transcript of the interview can be found in in Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work, ed. by Flora Veit-Wild (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc, 2004), pp. 25-27.