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Living on a horizon : Bessie Head and the politics of imagining / Desiree Lewis.

Author/creator Lewis, Desiree
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2007.
Description317 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Head, Bessie, 1937-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
Politics and literature--South Africa --History --20th century.
Feminism and literature--Africa, Southern --History --20th century.
Women and literature--South Africa --History --20th century.
South Africa--In literature.
Contents Bessie Head's "broader platform" -- Establishing channels of communication: Bessie Head's "Imagined communities" -- The cardinals and Bessie Head's allegories of self -- When rain clouds gather: migrations and new beginnings -- "Slipping into the skin of a Masarwa person": Maru -- A question of power and "some 'other kind' of knowledge" -- Claiming an invented homeland: Serowe: village of the rain wind and The collector of treasures -- Pasts, presents and utopia: A bewitched crossroad.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-311) and index.
LCCN 2006039318
ISBN1592214584 (cloth)
ISBN9781592214587 (cloth)
ISBN1592214592 (pbk.)
ISBN9781592214594 (pbk.)

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