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Negotiating the postcolonial : Emerging perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga / edited by Ann Elizabeth Willey & Jeanette Treiber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2002.Description: xix, 360 p. ; cmISBN:
  • 0865439338 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9390.9.D36 Z66 2002
Contents:
Nervous collusions of nation and gender : Tsitsi Dangarembga's challenge to Fanon / Heather Zwicker -- Tradition, modernity and the family as nation : reading the Chimurenga struggle into and out of Nervous conditions / Susan Z. Andrade -- Modernity, alienation and development : Nervous conditions and the female paradigm / Ann Elizabeth Willey -- Strategic fusions : undermining cultural essentialism in Nervous conditions / Jeanette Treiber -- Indexing her digests : working through Nervous conditions / Brendon Nicholls -- Moving forward from death : cultural autopsy as a guide to the living / Jeffrey Geller -- Dangarembga's dirty work : acting up and speaking out, "Good medicine" for Africa / Giuliana Lund -- Some very nervous conditions : commodity, culture and identity in Dangarembga's novel / Sally Ann Murray -- Women and food in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Kelli Donovan Wixson -- "Two disconnected entities" : the pitfalls of knowing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Linda E. Chown -- Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions : an African woman's revisionist narrative / Mary Jane Androne -- Reading "The letter" of a woman : narrative strategies in Dangarembga's story of Apartheid South Africa / Jacqueline Wigfall -- Empracing the shadow : recognizing liminality in Dangarembga's Jungian undercurrents / Kgomotso Masemola.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-347) and index.

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