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100 1 $aIbrahim, Huma.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no89006339
245 10 $aBessie Head :$bsubversive identities in exile /$cHuma Ibrahim.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity Press of Virginia,$c1996.
263 $a9612
300 $aix, 252 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aOne of the foremost African writers of our time, who dispelled the silence between colonial and feminist discourses by "talking back," Bessie Head at last gets her due in this first book-length, comprehensive study of her work. This book locates Head's unquestionable importance in the canon of African literature.
520 8 $aAuthor Huma Ibrahim argues that unless we are able to look at the merging of women's sexual and linguistic identity with their political and gendered identity, the careful configurations created in Head's work will elude us.
520 8 $aIbrahim offers a series of thoughtful readings informed by feminist, diasporan, postcolonial, and poststructuralist insights and concerns. She identifies a theme she calls "exilic consciousness" - the desire to belong - and traces its manifestations through each phase of Head's work, showing how "women's talk" - a marginalized commodity in the construction of southern Africa - is differently embodied and evaluated.
520 8 $aBessie Head's works are frequently featured in courses in African literature, third-world literature, and fiction writing, but there is little critical material on them.
520 8 $aIbrahim offers readings of Head's novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power, as well as the collections Tales of Tenderness and Power, A Collector of Treasures, A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings, and The Cardinals, the histories Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind and A Bewitched Crossroad, and her letters to Robert Vigne collected in A Gesture of Belonging. In Head's exploration of oppressed people, especially women and those in exile, Ibrahim finds startling insights into institutional power relations.
520 8 $aHead not only subverts Western hegemonic notions of the third-world woman but offers a critique of postcoloniality.
600 10 $aHead, Bessie,$d1937-1986$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zAfrica, Southern$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zAfrica, Southern$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aAfrica, Southern$xIn literature.
650 0 $aDecolonization in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004536
650 0 $aExiles in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007614
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