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Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile: Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction (Global Africa) by Joshua Agbo; Taylor & Francis Group is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile: Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction (Global Africa) about?

This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s novels and short fiction. An exile herself, arriving in Botswana as a South African refugee, Bessie Head’s fiction serves as an important example of African exile literature. This book argues that Head’s characters are driven to exile as a result of their socio- political ambivalence while still in South Africa, and that this sense of discomfort follows them to their new lives. Investigating themes of trauma and identity politics across colonial and post- colonial contexts, this book also addresses the important theme of black- on- black prejudice and hostility which is often overlooked in studies of Head’s work. Covering Head’s shorter fiction as well as her major novels __When Rain Clouds Gather__ (1969), __Maru__ (1971), __A Question of Power__ (1973), __Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind__ (1981), and __A Bewitched Crossroads: An African Saga__ (1984), this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature and postcolonial history.

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Author

Joshua Agbo; Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000398618

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Fiction