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Bessie Head : the inappropriate appropriation of "autobiography" / Arlene A. Elder -- Between amnesia and memory : Bessie Head and her critics / Isabel Balseiro -- Literature of rejection and reception : Bessie Head's life, history as fact or history as fiction. A report from Japan! / Keiko Kusunose -- Reading ghostly desire : writing the edges of Bessie Head's A Question of Power / Hershini Bhana -- Condition of exile and the negation of commitment : a biographical study of Bessie Head's novels / Percy Mosieleng -- Bessie Head's South Africa / Craig MacKenzie. |
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Retelling, recreating, and recovering : the evolution of trauma in Bessie Head's work / Maureen Fielding -- "That troublemaker" : Bessie Head in Botswana / Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema -- Power, representation and the textual politics of Bessie Head / Desiree Lewis -- Caliban's sister : Bessie Head's Maru as a rewriting of The Tempest / Peter Mwikisa -- Taboo, a positive transgression? A study of Bessie Head's The Cardinals / Sisi (V.M.) Maquagi -- Gestures of belonging and claiming birth rights : short stories by Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo / Robert Cancel. |
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Problematic relationship of western canonicity and African literature : the not-so-singular case of Bessie Head / Huma Ibrahim |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003024705 |
| ISBN | 1592210732 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1592210740 (pbk.) |
