The late Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera puts material culture to use throughout her published fiction. Her engagement with the physical stuff that enters her writing reflects less the current wave of political craft scholarship and perhaps more an opportunity to work with the beauty of details provided both by the horrific and the everyday. This article argues that the descriptions Yvonne Vera offers us of her own writing process shed light on her work as a practitioner – a practitioner of the craft of writing – an emphasis often overlooked in studies more national or political in focus. Overall, the article is interested in acknowledging the less predictable nature of the creative process, which in Vera's case sought inspiration through attention to material culture, a process often described by Vera as an embodied, consuming search.

已故的津巴布韦作家伊冯娜·维拉 (Yvonne Vera) 在她出版的小说中运用了物质文化。她对进入她写作的物理内容的参与较少反映当前的政治手艺奖学金浪潮，而更多地反映了一个机会，可以处理可怕的和日常生活所提供的细节之美。本文认为，伊冯娜·维拉 (Yvonne Vera) 向我们提供的对她自己的写作过程的描述阐明了她作为一名实践者的工作——写作技巧的实践者——这一重点在更多关注国家或政治的研究中经常被忽视。总的来说，这篇文章有兴趣承认创作过程的不可预测性，在 Vera 的案例中，它通过对物质文化的关注来寻求灵感，这个过程经常被 Vera 描述为具身性的、消耗性的搜索。