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Black and female:
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
158 pages ; 19 cm
Production / Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2023.
Summary
"In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in Africa by human trafficking and enslavement. She argues that, after independence, the ruling party in Zimbabwe only performed inclusion for women while silencing the work of self-actualized feminists. She describes her struggles to realize her ambitions in theater, film, and literature, laying out the long path to the publication of her novels. At once philosophical, intimate, and urgent, Black and Female is a powerful testimony of the pervasive and long-lasting effects of racism and patriarchy that provides an ultimately hopeful vision for change. Black feminists are "the status quo's worst nightmare." Dangarembga writes, "our conviction is deep, bolstered by a vivid imagination that reminds us that other realities are possible beyond the one that obtains.""--Publisher marketing.
Call Number
305.4208 DANGAREMBGA
Publication Date
2022-2023
Language
English
ISBN
9781644452110
This mournable body :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
284 pages ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Summary
"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be."--Amazon.com.
Call Number
FIC DAN
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781555978129
Nervous conditions :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
viii, 204 pages ; 21 cm.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Seal Press, 2004, c1998.
Call Number
Y DANGAREMBGA/ SR
Publication Date
2004, 1998
Language
English
ISBN
9781580051347
Nervous conditions :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Banbury : Ayebia Clarke, 2004.
Call Number
FICTION DANGAREMBGA
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
ISBN
9780954702335
Nervous conditions :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
204 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
Seattle, Wash. : Seal Press, 1989, c1988.
Call Number
FIC/DANGAREMBGA/PB
Publication Date
1988-1989
Language
English
ISBN
9780931188749
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