Living on A Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining - Taschenbuch

2007, ISBN: 1592214592

[SR: 7102851], Paperback, [EAN: 9781592214594], Africa World Press, Inc., Africa World Press, Inc., Book, [PU: Africa World Press, Inc.], 2007-01-25, Africa World Press, Inc., Bessie Head… Mehr…

[SR: 7102851], Paperback, [EAN: 9781592214594], Africa World Press, Inc., Africa World Press, Inc., Book, [PU: Africa World Press, Inc.], 2007-01-25, Africa World Press, Inc., Bessie Head s writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. Living on a Horizon explores this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head acknowledges and that her writing evokes. Focusing on Head's acute sensitivity to wide-ranging social and historical experiences, the book deals with Head's use of myths and trans-cultural fictions that convey critical knowledge about her immediate world and the historical domains beyond it. Living in the Horizon also explores Head's sensitivity to gender and shows how she develops plots, themes and creative realms that unsettle male-centered narratives. Her multivocal plots, in particular, indicate the importance she attaches to configuring voices, stories, desires and creative realms that are suppressed by patriarchal codes. In addition, Bessie Head s autobiographical vision generates an idiosyncratic exploration of personal injustices as well as the broader processes they signal. Hinduism and eastern philosophy were central to Head's philosophical vision, and the book shows how this vision allowed her to explore existential questions and spiritual concerns in innovative and unexpected ways. By using language auto-referentially and symbolically, by drawing on resonant myths and by developing abundantly textured metaphors, Head produces fictions that manifest the notions of freedom and serenity she urgently endorses, and that are as concerned with challenging the realities she confronts as they are with utopian imagining., 10204, History & Criticism, 9988, Books & Reading, 10159333011, Comparative Literature, 10207, Criticism & Theory, 10159334011, Genres & Styles, 10225, Movements & Periods, 10159357011, Reference, 10159358011, Regional & Cultural, 10159380011, Women Authors, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10311, World Literature, 10313, African, 271599011, Asian, 16004541, Australia & Oceania, 10324, Canadian, 10425, Caribbean & Latin American, 271600011, European, 16004751, Jewish, 265787, Middle Eastern, 10433, Russian, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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2007, ISBN: 1592214592

[SR: 8888481], Paperback, [EAN: 9781592214594], Africa Research & Publications, Africa Research & Publications, Book, [PU: Africa Research & Publications], 2007-07-08, Africa Research & P… Mehr…

[SR: 8888481], Paperback, [EAN: 9781592214594], Africa Research & Publications, Africa Research & Publications, Book, [PU: Africa Research & Publications], 2007-07-08, Africa Research & Publications, 275096, Literary Theory & Movements, 275068, History & Criticism, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 275105, Novels & Novelists, 275068, History & Criticism, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

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ISBN: 9781592214594

Paperback, [PU: Africa Research & Publications], Explores Bessie Head's writing in all its facets, with a particular emphasis on her sensitivity to gender. Living On A Horizon shows how s… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Africa Research & Publications], Explores Bessie Head's writing in all its facets, with a particular emphasis on her sensitivity to gender. Living On A Horizon shows how she develops plots, themes and creative realms that unsettle male-centred narratives, with multivocal plots indicating the importance she attaches to configuring voices, stories, desires and creative realms that may be suppressed by patriarchal codes., Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers<

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2007, ISBN: 1592214592

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