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Author : Mary S. Lederer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing Bessie Head in Botswana written by Mary S. Lederer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Stir the Heart written by Bessie Head and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and hope are the powerful provocateurs in four stories by two great African writers.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611642
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales written by Bessie Head and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bessie Head’s short stories have an extraordinary simplicity and breadth of vision,” heralded a review in The Tribune after publication of Head’s first collection of short stories, The Collector of Treasures. Regarded today as one of Africa’s best-known woman writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling’s language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, the anthology gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status, position, and plight of African women.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Tenderness and Power written by Bessie Head and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of stories, personal observations and historic legends. It reflects the author's fascination with Africa's people and their history as well as her identification with individuals and their conflicting emotions.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611677
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Rain Clouds Gather written by Bessie Head and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478635142
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Question of Power written by Bessie Head and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock; her mother was white and her father black—a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth eventually leaves with her young son to live in Botswana, a country less oppressed by colonial domination, where she finds stability for herself and her son by working on an experimental farm. As readers grow to know Elizabeth, they experience the inner chaos that threatens her stability, and her constant struggle to emerge from the torment of her dreams. There she is plagued by two men, Sello and Dan, who represent complex notions of politics, sex, religion, individuality, and the blurred line between good and evil. Elizabeth’s troubling but amazing roller-coaster ride ends in an unfettered discovery.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collector of Treasures, and Other Botswana Village Tales written by Bessie Head and published by London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational. This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories based on life in a Botswanan village, including the story of a woman who murders the husband who deserted her years before.
Author : Craig MacKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bessie Head written by Craig MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise overview of Head's work: essays, novels, and autobiographical writings. Known for recording stories of everyday people in remote areas of Africa.
Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780435906030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Woman Alone written by Bessie Head and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays that covers the entire span of Bessie Head's creative life.
Author : Mary S. Lederer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501371436
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Conversation with Bessie Head written by Mary S. Lederer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana's most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two parallel threads, the first regarding Mary S. Lederer's own history of reading Head-from her first purchase of Maru, through completing a Ph.D. on Head's trilogy, through living in Botswana and connecting with various aspects of Head's life, to examining how reading Head has affected her own development as a human being. This history then ties each chapter into discussion of how Head develops her own vision of the “brotherhood of man.” Alongside critically informed discussion, Head's vision is examined through the prism of specific questions. Why is madness not a useful concept for understanding Head's ideas? Why did Head say she was not a feminist, and what is the significance of “male” and “female” in her novels? What is the relationship between individual, race, and community? How can the nature of God be a clear expression of love but also an indistinct force for both good and evil? Head's novels present opportunities for personal growth, and through these “conversations” with her, we become different readers.
