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Bessie Head
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Bessie Head

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Concise overview of Head's work: essays, novels, and autobiographical writings. Known for recording stories of everyday people in remote areas of Africa.

Bessie Head
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Bessie Head

Introduces key concepts needed for map reading and map making. This series explores different types of maps, photographs and illustrations, and includes activities and quizzes, making it ideal for learning essential map skills.

Maru
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Maru

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Heinemann

The moving tale of an ophaned Masarwa girl who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarises a community which does not see Masarwa people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast.

Bessie Head
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Bessie Head

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 them...

Emerging Perspectives on Bessie Head
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Emerging Perspectives on Bessie Head

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When Rain Clouds Gather
  • Language: en

When Rain Clouds Gather

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In 'When Rain Clouds Gather' a South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces in Botswana to revolutionize the villager's traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards. 'Maru' is the moving tale of an orphaned Masarwa girl who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana.

The Cardinals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Cardinals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Heinemann

The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event.

Between the Lines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Between the Lines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Question of Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

A Question of Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Heinemann

"When Elizabeth learns the devastating truth about her mother, locked away for defying Apartheid, she flees South Africa and begins a new life in Botswana, at Motabeng, the village of the rain-wind. But Elizabeth is tormented by two men, Dan and Sello, who represent for her a private vision of hell into which she sinks deeper and deeper. This novel interweaves one woman's terrifying experience of insanity with the madness and cruelty of life in a divided society. A Question of Power is the unforgettable study of an individual - and a race - whose identity has been annihilated, and their resulting struggle to endure"--Publisher's description.

The Lovers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

The Lovers

These nineteen short stories from renowned author Bessie Head touch on gender, religion, and authority in Southern Africa before and after independence. Written throughout the 1960s and 70s, this newly expanded collection includes many of Head's previously unavailable stories, collected here for the first time. 'I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.' In the collection's title story, 'The Lovers', Bessie Head captures the legendary tale of two young villagers caught in a society that values custom and arranged marriages above true love. Tender in their devotion and brave in their questioning of tradition...