Bessie Head

thunder behind her ears : her life and writing

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Bessie Head

thunder behind her ears : her life and writing

2nd ed.
  • 1 Want to read

Besie Head was a born writer, but one born also to a deprived childhood and a life of often recurring hardship. Indeed, her life echoes many aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half-century. She was born in an asylum to a white woman who was considered mad; her father was black. Yet despite the disadvantages of being both a person of mixed race and a woman she made her way in Cape Town and Johannesburg as a journalist.

As the political crisis deepened in South Africa in the 1960s, Bessie went into exile in rural Botswana. Although her life as a refugee in Botswana was full of crises and upheavals, her creative energy was released by her adopted country and she produced stories and novels - such as Where Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power - that won her an international reputation.

Bessie Head - Thunder Behind Her Ears is an engrossing biography of the turbulent life of one of Africa's great writers, whose reputation is growing by the year. It describes with insight the driving force of Bessie's writing talent, her fiery personality and her often grinding circumstances.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
374

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Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears: Her Life and Writing
August 31, 2007, Witwatersrand University Press
Paperback in English
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Bessie Head: thunder behind her ears : her life and writing
2007, Wits University Press
in English - 2nd ed.
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Bessie Head: thunder behind her ears : her life and writing
1996, Heinemann, J. Currey, D. Philip
in English
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Bessie Head: thunder behind her ears : her life and writing
1995, James Currey
in English
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Bessie Head - Thunder Behind Her Ears
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-367) and index.

Published in
Johannesburg
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914, B
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.H4 Z64 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 374 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
374

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20001209M
ISBN 10
1868144461
ISBN 13
9781868144464
LCCN
2008552594
OCLC/WorldCat
156810093
Goodreads
2255127

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