| #12689 in Books | Lynne Rienner Publishers | 2004-01-01 | 2005-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x5.00 x.75l,.50 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Detail on the Violence of Colonization|By Raylene|An engaging (and fast) read. A must read for any one in the African diaspora experiencing some kind of change in social class (e.g. being first in the family to attend college or graduate school) or otherwise having suspicions about the sources of their feelings of alienation. Specifically, this is an amazingly relevan|From Publishers Weekly|Tambu, an adolescent living in colonial Rhodesia of the '60s, seizes the opportunity to leave her rural community to study at the missionary school run by her wealthy, British-educated uncle. With an uncanny and often critical self-awarene
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the ‘nervousness’ of the ‘postcolonial’ conditions that bedevil us still. In ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Nervous Conditions | Tsitsi Dangarembga. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
