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"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...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in Africa by human trafficking and enslavement. She argues...
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Publisher
Ayebia Clarke
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga's award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been "hailed as one of the 20th century's most significant works of African literature" (The New
York Times). 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,...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Graywolf Printing, 2021.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In The Book of Not, Dangarembga reintroduces a lot of her old characters, including Tambu's detestable mother, her misogynistic uncle, her bitter aunt, and her intelligent and ever-questioning cousin Nyasha. It is the family we have all wanted to run away from at some point in time. For all connoisseurs of African literature, The Book of Not is an important new read. The story of Tambu surprises with its poignant commentary on a still painful Zimbabwean...
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