Psychological afflictions as expressed in Bessie Head’s <i>A Question of Power</i> and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s <i>Nervous Conditions</i>
This article refutes the glib generalization about the lack of psychological sensitivity so often attributed to Africans by examining female suffering manifesting itself in nervous afflictions as a result of colonialism and patriarchy as portrayed in these two novels. It is argued that the overridin...
Main Author: | N. Cloete |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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AOSIS
2000-04-01
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Series: | Literator |
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Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/439 |
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