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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. Ibrahim Offers A Series Of Thoughtful Readings Informed By Feminist, Diasporan, Postcolonial, And Poststructuralist Insights And Concerns. She Identifies A Theme She Calls Exilic Consciousness--the Desire To Belong - And Traces Its Manifestations Through Each Phase Of Head's Work, Showing How Women's Talk - A Marginalized Commodity In The Construction Of Southern Africa - Is Differently Embodied And Evaluated. Bessie Head's Works Are Frequently Featured In Courses In African Literature, Third-world Literature, And Fiction Writing, But There Is Little Critical Material On Them. Ibrahim Offers Readings Of Head's Novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, And A

Author

Ibrahim, Huma

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813916859

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities