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| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga, 2020-10-19 FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 ' UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist 'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER' Bloomsbury Review 'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien 'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a fledgling nation. 'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of not being, wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.' Madelein Thien |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Book of Not Tsitsi Dangarembga, 2021-05-18 The powerful sequel to Nervous Conditions, by the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The Book of Not continues the saga of Tambudzai, picking up where Nervous Conditions left off. As Tambu begins secondary school at the Young Ladies’ College of the Sacred Heart, she is still reeling from the personal losses that have been war has inflicted upon her family—her uncle and sister were injured in a mine explosion. Soon she’ll come face to face with discriminatory practices at her mostly-white school. And when she graduates and begins a job at an advertising agency, she realizes that the political and historical forces that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community are outside the walls of the school as well. Tsitsi Dangarembga, honored with the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression, digs deep into the damage colonialism and its education system does to Tambu’s sense of self amid the struggle for Zimbabwe’s independence, resulting in a brilliant and incisive second novel. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga, 2018-08-07 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow’s boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents’ impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga’s tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Every Day is for the Thief Teju Cole, 2014-04-03 A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose present is as burdened by the past as it is facing a new future. Along the way, our narrator encounters life in Lagos. He is captivated by a woman reading on a danfo; attempts to check his email are frustrated by Yahoo boys; he is charmingly duped buying fuel. He admires the grace of an aunty, bereaved by armed robbers and is inspired by the new malls and cultural venues. The question is: should he stay or should he leave? But before the story can even begin, he has to queue for his visa.. Every Day is for the Thiefis a striking portrait of Nigeria in change. Through a series of cinematic portraits of everyday life in Lagos, Teju Cole provides a fresh approach to the returnee experience.- See more at: http://www.cassavarepublic.biz/products/every-day-is-for-the-thief#sthash.qe7r4oNv.dpuf |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith, 2017-09-05 Digte. Addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Postcolonial Fiction and Disability C. Barker, 2012-01-06 This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Refuge Dina Nayeri, 2017 An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom and, ultimately, rescue--Amazon.com. |
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| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison, 2014-04-01 From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Representation and Resistance Jaspal Kaur Singh, 2008 Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: African Masculinities L. Ouzgane, R. Morrell, 2005-03-15 While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa-the many forms of violence (wars, genocides, familial violence and crime) and the AIDS pandemic-it is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures and a variety of religious and knowledge systems creates masculine identities and sexualities. The work done in the book particularly bears in mind how vulnerability and marginalization produce complex forms of male identity. The book is interdisciplinary and is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of African men as a gendered category. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Negotiating the Postcolonial Ann Elizabeth Willey, Jeanette Treiber, 2002 This is a wide-ranging discussion of the groundbreaking author whose first novel, 'Nervous Conditions', was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize and was the first novel to be published in English in Zimbabwe by a black woman. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Deep Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes, 2019-11-05 Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are. The Deep is “a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze…a superb, multilayered work,” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Queer Africa 2: New Stories Makhosazana Xaba, Karen Martin, 2017-08-08 In Queer Africa 2: New Stories, the 26 stories by writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda and the USA present exciting and varied narratives on life. There are stories on desire, disruption and dreams; others on longing, lust and love. The stories are representative of the range of human emotions and experiences that abound in the lives of Africans and those of the diaspora, who identify variously along the long and fluid line of the sexuality, gender and sexual orientation spectrum in the African continent. Centred in these stories and in their attendant relationships is humanity. The writers showcase their artistry in storytelling in thought-provoking and delightful ways. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Haunted Nations Sneja Gunew, 2013-04-15 Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her discussion in a variety of national settings and a variety of literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts. Using examples from marginal sites - the settler societies of Australia and Canada - to cast light on the globally dominant discourses of the US and the UK, Gunew analyses the political ambiguities and the pitfalls involved in a discourse of multiculturalism haunted by the opposing spectres of anarchy and assimilation. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Trauma of Colonial Condition: in Nervous Conditions and Kiss of the Fur Queen Milena Bubenechik, 2013-08 This study depicts the traumatic condition of the formerly colonised indigenous people of Africa and Canada. The postcolonial trauma novels Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) are first-hand accounts of colonial experience under the governance of the British Empire of the second half of the twentieth century. The semi-autobiographical novels bring up the voices of the formerly silenced natives and are pioneering accounts of the native perception of Western intrusion. The narratives portray the upsetting experiences of the era of colonisation and explore the insidious consequences of living in the midst of historical change. The novels, written in English, speak back to the canon and expose the suffering of its subjects. They depict the grim atmosphere of the colonial project and show the effects of the domination, oppression, diaspora and discrimination suffered by the natives. They are life narratives and as such reveal facts that are not recorded in history books. Both trauma novels enrich and challenge the discourse on (post)colonial trauma. The native authors, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Tomson Highway, explore the questions of identity, trauma and resistance in the context of colonization. Their approach queries traditional notions of identity formation and the common understanding of trauma and trauma healing. With their portrayal of unique means for resistance and survival, the novelists offer a challenge to the existing beliefs and theories. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Ato Quayson, 2021-01-21 This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Afropean Johny Pitts, 2019-06-06 Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.' Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Baddawi Leila Abdelrazaq, 2015 Coming-of-age story about a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai, 2013-01-29 In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Cereus Blooms at Night Shani Mootoo, 2009 This book is a haunting multi-generational novel about the shifting faces of Mala - adventurer and protector, recluse and madwoman. The plot contains sexual violence and mature themes -- Prové de l'editor. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: There Was a Country Chinua Achebe, 2012-10-11 From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Kindred Spirits Christopher N. Okonkwo, 2022 This is the first book-length comparative study of literary giants Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe-- |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Girls That Never Die Safia Elhillo, 2022-07-12 Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children “Endlessly compelling . . . a book that gives us courage, despite all the despairing records of history.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power. Elhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. Ultimately, Girls That Never Die is about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning: [what if i will not die] [what will govern me then] |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo, 2013-05-21 This unflinching and powerful novel tells the deeply felt and fiercely written story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. Original, witty, and devastating. —People |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Glory NoViolet Bulawayo, 2022-03-08 2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review Genius.—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake. NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution—and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom—its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over—unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Maps Nuruddin Farah, 1999 As a young adolescent seeking perspective on both his country and himself, Askar goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital, Mogadiscio.--BOOK JACKET. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer, 2012-03-15 In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism C. Plasa, 2000-04-19 This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on post-colonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison and Tsitsi Dangarembga and highlights the elements of dialogue, exchange and contestation between them. It illustrates how inscriptions of racial crossing - whether between white and black or black and white - are always implicated in a certain textual and/or intertextual politics. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel Madeleine Thien, 2016-10-11 Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award Finalist for the Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor. —New York Times Book Review “In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.” Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Ming’s father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China’s political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences. With maturity and sophistication, humor and beauty, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of life inside China yet transcendent in its universality. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Old Chief Mshlanga Doris Lessing, 2013-03-28 From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl’s experience of growing up in an unnamed African country. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Bradshaw Variations Rachel Cusk, 2010-03-30 Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and grace in his daily piano study. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife, who has accepted a demanding full-time job? How can this be good for Alexa? Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the harder, headier world of work, where long-forgotten memories of ambition are awakened. She soon finds herself outside their tight family circle, alive to previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of a year full of crisis and revelation, we follow the fortunes of Tonie, Thomas, and his brothers and their families: Howard, the successful, indulgent brother, and his gregarious wife, Claudia; and Leo, lacking in confidence and propped up by Susie, his sharp-tongued, heavy-drinking wife. At the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents descend on their children to question and undermine them. The Bradshaw Variations reveals how our choices, our loves, and the family life we build will always be an echo—a variation—of a theme played out in our own childhood. This masterful and often shockingly funny novel, Rachel Cusk's seventh, shows a prizewinning writer at the height of her powers. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies Jane Pilcher, Imelda Whelehan, 2004-04-10 The authors' introduction gives an account of gender studies - what it is and how it originated. Their selection of topics is authoritative and the 50 entries reflect the complex, multi-faceted nature of the field in an accessible dictionary format. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh, 2011-04-19 From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: A Man's Place Annie Ernaux, 2012-05-29 WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Stone Virgins Yvonne Vera, 2004-02-14 An uncompromising novel by one of Africa’s premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose. Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the beginning of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a half decade more. With The Stone Virgins, Yvonne Vera examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township outside of Bulawayo. In a portrait painted in successive impressions of life before and after the liberation, Vera explores the quest for dignity and a centered existence against a backdrop of unimaginable violence; the twin instincts of survival and love; the rival pulls of township and city life; and mankind’s capacity for terror, beauty, and sacrifice. One sister will find a reason for hope. One will not make it through alive. Weaving historical fact within a story of grand passions and striking endurance, Vera has gifted us with a powerful and provocative testament to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people. “Yvonne Vera writes with magnificent luminosity. The Stone Virgins is a song about the author’s people, and the tragedy of their lives and their loves, contrasted against the sheer beauty of their land. It may yet prove to be one of the notable novels of the twenty-first century.” —Ama Ata Aidoo, award-winning author of Changes: A Love Story “Without sensationalism or heroics, this searing novel speaks of dislocation, terror, betrayal, and strength.” —Booklist |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: How to Be Ace Rebecca Burgess, 2020-10-21 PRISM AWARDS FINALIST 2021 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS - YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) 2022 When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? I was only interested in comics. Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themselves into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity. Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Hiding in Plain Sight Nuruddin Farah, 2015-06-04 From 'the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years' (New York Review of Books) comes a novel set in Somalia and Kenya about family, freedom and loyalty When Bella, an internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew, she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness and responsibility. But when their mother unexpectedly resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirrors the deepening political instability in the region, Bella must decide whether she can – or must – come to their rescue. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: Outriders Africa Layla Mohamed, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, 2021-10-19 Journeying outside the boundaries of one's society to see and discover how others live, or what lies beyond the horizon, is central to our humanity and the birth of inventions and creativity. Travel writing provides opportunities for both self-exploration and ethnocentrism. It is therefore unsurprising that some of the most enduring stereotypes about Africa and Africans have come from travel writing by European men and women, with tropes of monstrosity, backwardness, inferiority, infantilism and foreboding. In the last few years, a handful of Black and African authors have emerged in the travel writing scene. They are however not enough to counter-balance the damaging legacy that 400 years of white European journeying authors has brought to the genre. The Outrider project is an invitation for writers to explore travel writing through the African Gaze. Two paired writers travel in and through the same society and write about their experience and encounters from their own embodied perspective. |
| nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga: The Prophetess Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele, 1992 |
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA'S NERVOUS CONDITIONS: AN ATTEMPT …
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA'S NERVOUS CONDITIONS: AN ATTEMPT IN THE FEMINIST TRADITION ROSEMARY MOYANA Department of Curriculum and Arts Education, University …
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: The Emancipation of …
Submerging the tortured routes to female subjectivity and the path to gender egalitarianism Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has presented a novel Nervous Conditions that is all …
Representations of Women, Identity and Education in the Novels …
This thesis explores the representation of women, identity and education in the works of Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1989) and The Book of Not (2006), and Kopano Matlwa, …
A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous …
In this chapter the issue of women’s subjectivity is addressed in accordance with feminist notions of women’s marginalization. The feminist theories - radical, black, socialist and …
Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's …
Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Nervous Conditions (1988) is an ingeniously writ- ten novel. Its appeal goes beyond Dangaremgba's arresting interest in (post) colonial, gender, and cultural politics and …
NERVOUS CONDITIONS: THE BURDEN OF RACE, CLASS AND …
NERVOUS CONDITIONS: THE BURDEN OF RACE, CLASS AND GENDER IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POST-COLONIAL ORDER Mapungubwe Annual Lecture 2018 …
Colonialism, African Women, and Human Rights in Nervous …
The study, firstly, aims at exploring the effect of colonialism on African women’s lives in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and how it is still evident in postcolonial present. …
Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga University Of Washington …
Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga (2024) Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel Nervous Conditions to examine how the hope and …
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga - University of Washington
1) What do you think are the “nervous conditions” referred to by the title of Dangarembga’s novel? How do they apply to the various characters in the novel? Are these conditions impacted or …
An Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga - JSTOR
In late 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, a young unknown writer from Zimbabwe, caught international attention with the publication of her first novel Nervous Conditions.
Nervous Conditions Summary - gimmenotes
About Nervous Conditions. Nervous Conditions is a partially autobiographical novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga that takes place in Rhodesia in the late 1960s and …
Tsitsi Dangarembga - The University of Warwick
• The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among the colonized people with their consent.
Peripheral realism and the Bildungsroman in Tsitsi dangarembga’s
This essay analyzes Tsitsi angarembga’s d Nervous Conditions and argues that this novel appropriates and resignifies the bildungsroman, thus dem- onstrating that this genre cannot …
The formation of a hybrid identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s …
This article investigates Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) through a postcolonial approach. Nervous Conditions relate the double suffering of females in Southern Rhodesia, …
Self-Destructive Educationin Tsitsi Dangarembgaâ•Žs Nervous …
In Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, the most evident colonial power structure is the education system. Education occupies a paradoxical position; it both promotes the values of …
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: An attempt in the …
This article discusses Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions as an attempt in the feminist tradition. It begins by examining the meanings of the words 'gender', 'female: 'feminist' and …
Colonialism and its Impact on Dangarembga’s Nervous Condiions
Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959 -) in her novels Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not. This paper explores how this female author depicts the socio-political and economic effects on …
7. The Troubled Masculinities in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous …
of Nervous Conditions. Running beside and often intersecting with the female continuum suggested by Veit-Wild is a masculine spectrum, with the novel’s major male and, sometimes, …
Negotiating Social Change in Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Nervous …
Her first novel Nervous Conditions won the African Regional Prize in the 1989 Common-wealth Writers’ Prize awards. The innovative tex-ture of her work that reinforces the kinds of themes …
Language and Power - JSTOR
demonstrated with devastating clarity in Tsitsi Dangarembga's award-winning first novel, Nervous Conditions.4 In this text, 'the first published novel in English by a black Zimbabwean woman',5 …
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - gimmenotes
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Chapter · January 2000 CITATIONS 0 READS 29,865 1 author: Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related …
A Nauseating Fall: Understatement and Realisation
The strikingly simple style of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions —the narration of an apparently innocent child, Tambudzai— cuts deep into the reader, making the novel an …
Negotiating Social Change in Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Nervous Conditions
of Dangarembga’s literary achievement through the novel . Nervous Conditions (1988), despite this aspect of Dangarembga’s achievement hav-ing not received adequate critical attention …
The formation of a hybrid identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous …
identity in the colonized natives. This article investigates Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) through a postcolonial approach. Nervous Conditions relate the double …
“More than just food” - diva-portal.se
Abstract Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous Conditions problematises the notion of consumption by making connections between ideologies and values and physical food …
Nervous Conditions - pps.net
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga DRAFT Amy Ambrosio, SEIS Carol Dennis, Lincoln High School Kelly Gomes, Madison High School Henise Telles-Ferreira, SEIS June 2007 ... x …
Novel-film interface and postcolonial dystopia: A comparative …
comparative analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel and film, Nervous Conditions and Neria Shadreck Nembaware Department of English Universtity of Kwa-Zulu Natal …
Gender-Based Discrimination as a Trigger for Cultural Hybridity in ...
Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Irene Pagola Montoya Universidad de Salamanca Abstract The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, in contexts affected by …
Reconsidering the Bildungsroman: Tsitsi Dangarembgaâ s Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions has been universally acknowledged as an established member of the Bildungsroman genre because the novel focuses on the progressive …
Donjeta Osmani I'm Not One of Them but I'm Not One of You
In her novel Nervous Conditions (1988), Tsitsi Dangarembga depicts the struggle that women endured in colonialized Rhodesia. The patriarchal system of the Shona community has …
is a Graduate, Peer-Reviewed Journal based in the Department of …
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: Coming of Age and Adolescence as Representative of Multinational Hybridity Author[s]: Salumeh Eslamieh Source: MoveableType, Vol.1, ‘Childhood …
Writing about Female Oppression: The Social and Political ... - CORE
Writing about Female Oppression: The Social and Political Significance of Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Shirley Jeanne Broekman h.t ... '1 / Thesis presented in partial fulfilment …
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: The Emancipation of …
Dangarembga‟s Nervous Conditions is also a powerful indictment of women emancipation-a moving insight into the complex and often contradictory choices faced by African women today. …
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA'S NERVOUS CONDITIONS: AN …
1 Tsitsi Dangarembga , Nervous Conditions (Harare ZPH 1988). Further reference s to thi text will be simply by page number. 2 Se e discussio n of som thes wome I Rudo Galdzanwa's Images …
It’s the Englishness” - DiVA portal
Nervous Conditions by the Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga (b. 1959) was voted one of the 100 books that have shaped “mindsets or influenced history” by the BBC in 2018 (n.p.), and …
A THIRD WORLD FEMINIST APPROACH TO FEMALENESS AS …
to maleness in doris lessing’s the grass is singing and tsitsi dangarembga’s nervous conditions a thesis submitted to the graduate school of social sciences of middle east technical university by …
A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions …
The thesis provides a feminist analysis of the Zimbabwean women writer Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), reading the novel as a critique of African patriarchy. The …
'You Had a Daughter, but I Am Becoming a Woman': Sexuality
Before she wrote Nervous Conditions, the 1989 Commonwealth Prize novel for Africa, Tsitsi Dangarembga wrote She No Longer Weeps, a play that deals with gender relations in …
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: A Quest into the …
6 Apr 2016 · 105 Ghania Ouahmiche and Lemya Boughouas: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: A Quest into the Time-honoured Mindsets About Feminineness Scuffle in the …
'Willing Liberates': Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's ...
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Amanda Waugh University of Massachusetts, Amherst Women have often read Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy with discomfort. In Thus Spoke …
Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s Nervous …
—Nyasha, Nervous Conditions T sitsi Dangaremgba’s Nervous Conditions (1988) is an ingeniously writ-ten novel. Its appeal goes beyond Dangaremgba’s arresting interest in …
READING DEVELOPMENT AND WRITING AFRICA: UNFPA, NERVOUS …
main examination focuses on the Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga's two novels, Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), however, and my readings seek to show in …
Dangarembga, Tsitsi: Nervous Conditions - Springer
Dangarembga, Tsitsi: Nervous Conditions Christine Matzke Sprache englisch Übersetzung Der Preis der Freiheit (1991) ... Dangarembga spielt dabei auf Jean Paul Sartres Vorwort zu Frantz …
GIRL POWER IN NERVOUS CONDITIONS GIRLS AND GIRLHOOD …
Nervous conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga s literary, feminist investigation of girlhood in Zimbabwe in the late 1960s and early 70s, focuses on the education of two young women, Tambu and …
Thematic Concerns and the Womanist Ideas in Tsitsi Dangarembga…
in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The study is qualitative and adopts the literary theory of Feminism and its African variant, Womanism, as approaches to evaluate
Hunger, Normalcy and Postcolonial Disorder in Nervous Conditions …
disability issues in Potiki and in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and its sequel, The Book of Not (2006). Set in colonial Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s, with the later book …
It’s the Englishness” - DiVA
Nervous Conditions by the Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga (b. 1959) was voted one of the 100 books that have shaped “mindsets or influenced history” by the BBC in 2018 (n.p.), and …
The representation of marginalized novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga …
In Chapter 2, I will focus on gender, class and race and discuss the ways Dangarembga explores these factors in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not. I will also discuss innovate ways …
Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga - 178.128.217.59
nervous conditions by tsitsi dangarembga victims victims everywhere getting to the core of the anti colonial struggle and the relationship between african men and women, nervous conditions …
The Protagonists in Two Female Writings: A Comparative …
namely Tsitsi Dangarembga‟s Nervous Conditions and Alice Walker‟s the color Purple. The first author is an African female writer whose book recounts women experience through the central …
Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's 'Nervous …
Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Nervous Conditions (1988) is an ingeniously writ-ten novel. Its appeal goes beyond Dangaremgba's arresting interest in (post) colonial, gender, and cultural politics and …
Creating While Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s
Creating While Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African Feminist Decolonial Imaginary Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro I am an existential refugee. I have been in ight since I left the …
The Intellectual Hysteric(s) in Nervous Conditions - JSTOR
One version of this history is summoned in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, a title that "signifies" upon the absent bodies in Fanon's analysis of col-onized natives. The epigraph …
Hazell 1 Katerina Hazell Honors Senior Thesis The Nature of Nervous …
The Nature of Nervous Conditions in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is, primarily, a novel about nervous conditions. It’s about …
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Publishing Issues. Tsitsi Dangarembga actually finished writing Nervous Conditionsin 1984 and attempted to get it published in Zimbabwe, but none of the small African publishing companies …
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LEARING UNIT 4: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 53 ENG2603/1/2014. iv. ENG2603/1 v INTRODUCTION TO THE MODULE This introduction was compiled by Prof M …
“None of the Women Are at Home” - ResearchGate
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions [2.1] ... Nervous Conditions is a coming-of-age story set on an impoverished [2.5] homestead in Southern Rhodesia during the Second …
Page No.1 n 1. The Pains of Colonialism - ResearchGate
Tsitsi Dangarembga is an African novelist and filmmaker from Zimbabwe. Nervous Conditions (1988) was her first novella after her 1987 play She No Longer Weeps.
The formation of a hybrid identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous …
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, in which the author clearly shows the destructive impacts of colonization on the indigenous people in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, …
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - StudyNotesUnisa
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Chapter · January 2000 CITATIONS 0 READS 29,865 1 author: Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related …
Context Tsitsi Dangarembga finished writing Nervous Conditions …
Tsitsi Dangarembga finished writing Nervous Conditions when she was in her mid-twenties and, upon its publication in 1988, won widespread critical acclaim for its complex and nuanced …
Breaking the Silence
emancipation and equality as depicted in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Purple Hibiscus (2003) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dangarembga and Adichie individually …
Tsitsi Dangarembga s Tambudzai Trilogy and the Work of …
CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS ROUNDTABLE ON TSITSI DANGAREMBGA’S NYASHA AND TAMBUDZAI TRILOGY Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy and the Work of …
Psychological afflictions as expressed in Bessie Head’s A …
Power and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions This article reMes the glib generalization about the lack of psychological sensitivity so often attributed to Africans by examining female …
The Recepteur and the Emetteur: A Case Study of Paternity in the …
This study examines the literary relationship between Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. …
GENDER OPPRESSION AND POSSIBILITIES OF EMPOWERMENT: …
The above quotation from Tsitsi Dangarembga‟s Nervous Conditions, depicts some of the ways in which traditional assumptions regarding of the role of women in Zimbabwean societies can …
Representations of Women, Identity and Education in the …
This thesis explores the representation of women, identity and education in the works of Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1989) and The Book of Not (2006), and Kopano Matlwa, …
PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI - CORE
first is to find out how Nyasha‟s hybrid identity is presented in Nervous Conditions. Then, the second objective is to understand how Nyasha‟s hybrid identity in seen from postcolonial point …
Negotiating Social Change in Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Nervous Conditions
of Dangarembga’s literary achievement through the novel . Nervous Conditions (1988), despite this aspect of Dangarembga’s achievement hav-ing not received adequate critical attention …
