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Living on an horizon : the writings of Bessie Head
Bessie Head's writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. I explore 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. Postcolonial …
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Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)
This thesis examines the relationship between Bessie Head's work as a journalist during the late 1950s and two of her novels: the first written just after she had left formal journalism and the second a decade later. I claim, in this thesis, that early journalistic writing by Head, which has been …
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Constructing an alternative language: Historical revision in the fiction of Bessie Head
Through consideration of Bessie Head's fiction and essays, the paper that follows investigates Head's use of fiction to challenge the hegemony of South African history, a history that fails to represent black South Africans except as "objects of abuse and exploitation" (Head, A Woman Alone 66). The …
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Die vertaling en groepering van Landeskunde elemente in geselekteerde verhale van Bessie Head
… languages. A selection of stories written by Bessie Head in which she tells stories about the customs and traditions of the Batswana were translated into Afrikaans. The stories on the Batswana culture were taken as representative of other African languages for the specific purpose of the …
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"""Who speaks for me, with and to me?"" Subalternity and representation in the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar"
… works of three writers: Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar. Devi, Head, and Djebar write about disenfranchised groups of people whose ontological existences are marginalized and silenced by mainstream social and national discourses of postcolonial nation-states such as India, …
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The madness of the Black man on his own: an analysis of the silences of history, in search of herstory
… Black South African women -- Mamphela Ramphele, Bessie Head, and Ellen Kuzwayo -- to see if and how they were impacted by the masculine discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), which was articulated in terms of "the Black man" and his struggle. One of the first points I make and use …