Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Social Control, Feminist Literary Criticism, Society & Culture in Literature, General & Miscellaneous African Literature - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism
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Overview
One of the foremost African writers of our time, who dispelled the silence between colonial and feminist discourses by "talking back," Bessie Head at last gets her due in this first book-length, comprehensive study of her work. This book locates Head's unquestionable importance in the canon of African literature. Author Huma Ibrahim argues that unless we are able to look at the merging of women's sexual and linguistic identity with their political and gendered identity, the careful configurations created in Head's work will elude us.
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Offers readings of the African writer's work from feminist, diasporan, postcolonial, and poststructuralist perspectives, identifying the theme of exilic consciousness and tracing its manifestations through each phase of Head's work, from novels and stories through autobiographical writings, histories, and letters. For readers in African literature, third-world literature, and women's studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 31, 1996
Publisher
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Pages
252
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780813916859