Negotiating the postcolonial :

Willey, Ann Elizabeth & Treiber, Jeanette (eds.)

Negotiating the postcolonial : Emerging perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga / edited by Ann Elizabeth Willey & Jeanette Treiber. - Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2002. - xix, 360 p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-347) and index.

Nervous collusions of nation and gender : Tsitsi Dangarembga's challenge to Fanon / Tradition, modernity and the family as nation : reading the Chimurenga struggle into and out of Nervous conditions / Modernity, alienation and development : Nervous conditions and the female paradigm / Strategic fusions : undermining cultural essentialism in Nervous conditions / Indexing her digests : working through Nervous conditions / Moving forward from death : cultural autopsy as a guide to the living / Dangarembga's dirty work : acting up and speaking out, "Good medicine" for Africa / Some very nervous conditions : commodity, culture and identity in Dangarembga's novel / Women and food in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / "Two disconnected entities" : the pitfalls of knowing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions : an African woman's revisionist narrative / Reading "The letter" of a woman : narrative strategies in Dangarembga's story of Apartheid South Africa / Empracing the shadow : recognizing liminality in Dangarembga's Jungian undercurrents / Heather Zwicker -- Susan Z. Andrade -- Ann Elizabeth Willey -- Jeanette Treiber -- Brendon Nicholls -- Jeffrey Geller -- Giuliana Lund -- Sally Ann Murray -- Kelli Donovan Wixson -- Linda E. Chown -- Mary Jane Androne -- Jacqueline Wigfall -- Kgomotso Masemola.

0865439338 (pbk.)

2001022097


Dangarembga, Tsitsi.


Women and literature--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Zimbabwe.


Zimbabwe--In literature.

PR9390.9.D36 / Z66 2002

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