Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and
challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African
woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that
empower and enoble the marginalized, provide potential for
transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power
of language to subjugate. This book features new critical material
on her life and works and explores the techniques she uses to
inscribe an idealistic vision in response to the psychic
fragmentation and rootlessness she experienced as an exile. The
traumatized characters of When Rain Clouds Gather reflect Head's
own use of agriculture and writing as means of coping with her
suffering. Maru is a radical subversion of the romance genre,
arguing for black women's need for space as creators. A Question of
Power employs madness as a potential site of resistance to official
constructions of reality. Viewed from the Lacanian association of
the incest taboo and the entry into language, The Cardinals
proposes a cosmic realm as an alternative to the categorical edicts
of patriarchal language. And endowed with a didactic voice, the
narrator of The Collector of Treasures claims the authority of
several hundred groups to critique the patriarchal society she
views. The contributors to this volume draw on new biographical
information as well as Head's private papers.
General
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets |
| Release date: |
September 2003 |
| First published: |
September 2003 |
| Authors: |
Maxine Sample
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
160 |
| Edition: |
Annotated Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-31557-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-313-31557-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780313315572 |
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