ISBN: 9780313315572

Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and enoble the marginalized, provide potential for transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power of language to subjugate. This book features new critical material on her life and works and explores the techniques she uses to inscribe an idealistic vision in response to the psychic fragmentation and rootlessness she experienced as an exile.The traumatized characters of When Rain Clouds Gather reflect Head's own use of agriculture and writing as means of coping with her suffering. Maru is a radical subversion of the romance genre, arguing for black women's need for space as creators. A Question of Power employs madness as a potential site of resistance to official constructions of reality. Viewed from the Lacanian association of the incest taboo and the entry into language, The Cardinals proposes a cosmic realm as an alternative to the categorical edicts of patriarchal language. And endowed with a didactic voice, the narrator of The Collector of Treasures claims the authority of several hundred groups to critique the patriarchal society she views. The contributors to this volume draw on new biographical information as well as Head's private papers. Books List_Books, [PU: Greenwood Press]

ISBN: 9780313315572

[ED: Buch], [PU: Praeger Publishers], Neuware - Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and ennoble the marginalized, provide potential for transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power of language to subjugate. This book features new critical material on her life and works and explores the techniques she uses to inscribe an idealistic vision in response to the psychic fragmentation and rootlessness she experienced as an exile. Included are discussions of When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power, The Cardinals, and The Collector of Treasures.- Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 235x157x13 mm, 164, [GW: 400g], PayPal, Kreditkarte, Offene Rechnung, Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand

2017, ISBN: 0313315574

[EAN: 9780313315572], Libro nuevo, [SC: 4.71], [PU: Praeger Publishers], CRITICAL ESSAYS ON BESSIE HEAD, PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Publication Year 2017; Fast Shipping from the UK., Books

2003, ISBN: 0313315574

[EAN: 9780313315572], Libro nuevo, [SC: 51.08], [PU: Praeger], New., Books