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| Named Person: | Bessie Head; Bessie Head |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maxine J Cornish Sample |
| ISBN: | 0313315574 9780313315572 |
| OCLC Number: | 50737130 |
| Description: | xii, 150 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Artist in exile: The life of Bessie Head / Maxine Sample -- 2. Agriculture and healing: Transforming space, transforming trauma in Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather / Maureen Fielding -- 3. Space: an experiential perspective: Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather / Maxine Sample -- 4. Bessie Head's Maru: Writing after the end of romance / Colette Guldimann -- 5. "A peculiar shuttling movement": madness, passing, and trespassing in Bessie Head's A question of power / Helen Kapstein -- 6. The cardinals: reclaiming language through the "permanent revolution of language": literature / Colette Guldimann -- 7. The didactic judgment of a woman writer: Bessie Head's The collector of treasures / Loretta Stec -- 8. Bessie Head: a bibliographic essay / Maxine Sample. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 205 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maxine Sample. |
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- Head, Bessie, -- 1937-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Women and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
- South Africa -- In literature.
- Head, Bessie, -- 1937- -- Critique et interprétation.
- Femmes et littérature -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Afrique du Sud dans la littérature.
