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Author:
Lewis, Desiree.
Title:
Living on a horizon : Bessie Head and the politics of imagining / Desiree Lewis.
Publisher:
Africa World Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Head, Bessie,--1937---Criticism and interpretation.
Politics and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
Feminism and literature--Africa, Southern--History--20th century.
Women and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
South Africa--In literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-311) and index.
Contents:
Bessie Head's "broader platform" -- Establishing channels of communication: Bessie Head's "Imagined communities" -- The cardinals and Bessie Head's allegories of self -- When rain clouds gather: migrations and new beginnings -- "Slipping into the skin of a Masarwa person": Maru -- A question of power and "some 'other kind' of knowledge" -- Claiming an invented homeland: Serowe: village of the rain wind and The collector of treasures -- Pasts, presents and utopia: A bewitched crossroad.
ISBN:
9781592214594 (pbk.)
1592214592 (pbk.)
9781592214587 (cloth)
1592214584 (cloth)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)76836116
LCCN:
2006039318
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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