Creative Vision of Bessie Head
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Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Summary: This book is an exploration of the way in which Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression--political, racist, and sexist--that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana, led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her. Her eagerness to discover a haven in her adopted rural Bots [read more]- 30-Day No-Hassle Returns
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9780838639825
ISBN:
0838639828
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
This book is an exploration of the way in which Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression--political, racist, and sexist--that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana, led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her. Her eagerness to discover a haven in her adopted rural Botswana led to a Utopia of her own making, a literary resolution imagined, not actual. A mental breakdown led to the creation of her greatest novel, "A Question of Power, one which examines the depths of evil, but allows also for the dawning of the heights of goodness. The appendix contains many heretofore unpublished letters that help to explain the personal compulsion that provided for Head's creativity.
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