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Nhw:Head, Bessie Pb

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  • Nhw:Head, Bessie Pb by Dorothy Driver
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Out of her experiences as a woman stigmatised in apartheid South Africa for not being white enough, and marginalised in Botswana for not being African enough, Bessie Head (1937-1986) created a body of work sometimes exhilarated, sometimes anguished, always bold. In this critical study, Dorothy Diver discusses the way Head’s writings – novels, short stories, letters, sketches, essays, reviews – address the ethical and spiritual difficulties of life in societies riven in one way or another by social divisions and hierarchies that held people back from achieving their full humanity. Head’s spirited and uniquely personal critique of what it means to be `African’ and `female’ in a postcolonial world is shown to engage with the possibilities for moving beyond such categories. To Head, writing became a powerfully creative means of re-formulating self and world.

Author Biography:

Professor Driver's major research area is in Southern African literature, and she has published essays (in South African, Australian, U.S. and European journals) on a range of Southern African writers in relation to representations of gender and race, as well as on gendered aspects of the African National Congress constitutional guidelines, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Drum magazine. She has also edited and co-edited books by and on Pauline Smith, Nadine Gordimer, and Anne Barnard; wrote the literary and historical afterword to the U.S. publication of Zoë Wicomb's David's Story; and has provided numerous entries to literary encyclopedias, most notably the Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, where she was responsible for the substantial South African section. General Editor: Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London
Release date Australia
November 30th, 2018
Pages
128
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9780746309612
Product ID
26972657

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