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Title:

Emerging perspectives on Bessie Head / edited by Huma Ibrahim.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 222 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Head, Bessie,--1937---Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
South Africa--In literature.

Other Authors:

Ibrahim, Huma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Bessie Head's South Africa / Craig MacKenzie. Between amnesia and memory : Bessie Head and her critics / Isabel Balseiro -- Literature of rejection and reception : Bessie Head's life, history as fact or history as fiction. A report from Japan! / Keiko Kusunose -- Reading ghostly desire : writing the edges of Bessie Head's A Question of Power / Hershini Bhana -- Condition of exile and the negation of commitment : a biographical study of Bessie Head's novels / Percy Mosieleng -- Bessie Head's South Africa / Craig MacKenzie.
Gestures of belonging and claiming birth rights : short stories by Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo / Robert Cancel. "That troublemaker" : Bessie Head in Botswana / Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema -- Power, representation and the textual politics of Bessie Head / Desiree Lewis -- Caliban's sister : Bessie Head's Maru as a rewriting of The Tempest / Peter Mwikisa -- Taboo, a positive transgression? A study of Bessie Head's The Cardinals / Sisi (V.M.) Maquagi -- Gestures of belonging and claiming birth rights : short stories by Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo / Robert Cancel.
Problematic relationship of western canonicity and African literature : the not-so-singular case of Bessie Head / Huma Ibrahim

ISBN:

9781592210749 (pbk.)
1592210740 (pbk.)
9781592210732 (cloth)
1592210732 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53469459

LCCN:

2003024705

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)