Emerging perspectives on Bessie Head / edited by Huma Ibrahim.

Other author Ibrahim, Huma.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxiv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Head, Bessie, 1937-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--South Africa. --History. --20th century.
South Africa--In literature.

Contents 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.
Contents 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.
Contents Problematic relationship of western canonicity and African literature : the not-so-singular case of Bessie Head / Huma Ibrahim
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003024705
ISBN1592210732 (cloth)
ISBN1592210740 (pbk.)