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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Bessie Head; Bessie Head; Bessie Head; Bessie Head; Bessie Head; Bessie Head |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Huma Ibrahim |
ISBN: | 0813916852 9780813916859 |
OCLC Number: | 34553531 |
Description: | ix, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Huma Ibrahim. |
Abstract:
This work locates Bessie Head's unquestionable importance in the canon of African literature. It offers a series of readings informed by feminist, diasporan, postcolonial and poststructuralist insights and concerns, tracing Head's subversion of Western hegemonic notions of the third world.
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