Tsitsi Dangarembga
Paperback | Pages: 204 pages Rating: 3.97 | 11022 Users | 788 Reviews
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| Title | : | Nervous Conditions (Nervous Conditions #1) |
| Author | : | Tsitsi Dangarembga |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 204 pages |
| Published | : | November 29th 2004 by Seal Press (CA) (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe. Feminism |
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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 Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.List Books Concering Nervous Conditions (Nervous Conditions #1)
| Original Title: | Nervous Conditions |
| ISBN: | 1580051340 (ISBN13: 9781580051347) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Nervous Conditions #1 |
| Setting: | Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe |
| Literary Awards: | Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (1989) |
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Female, black, daughter, pubescent, friend, peasant, traditions, colonised, Rhodesia, 1960s. That defines Tambu a young girl living in a small village with limited options for the future. Her brother is given a chance by being sponsored by her uncle to attend a local missionary school but there is money for only one. When her brother dies, Tambu now 14 finds herself in a new world of opportunity and goes to live with her uncle to study.Her cousin Nyasha, who lived in England while her parentsIt uses the old method popular among novelists of highlighting the prevalent social injustice and conditions through a shocking event - you know how Medea's killing her children reflected on patriarchy of her time, when 'Beloved's heroine kills her child it reflected on slavery. Camus' Outsider's narrator failed to feel any grief for his mother's loss - reflecting the way how people are unable to feel a sense of belonging to our surroundings and so on, Before I had read Phaedra I thought her
Nervous Conditions is a story of African women in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the early 1970s. Tambudzai (Tambu), a young woman from a poor family, tells us the story of her ascension into the educated, "White" world after the death of her brother, at the same time telling the stories of the other women of her family. Each woman is different from the others, and deals with the oppression of white colonial power and patriarchy in different ways. Colonial power and patriarchy are
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. Nyasha's character resonated most with me, as I'm a first-generation African-American college student of working class origins who ended up pursuing a Ph.D.: I, too, feel frustrated by what seems to be an obvious
At one point in the novel, the narrator's aunt decides she's had enough of her husband's bullying ways and runs off. Except that she has nowhere to go. She can go to her brother, stay for a few days. But she still has to return. She has a life with him and a family and she is already too entrenched. The same can be said for each of the women in this novel, some of them don't always realize that they should be emancipated. But they are all caught in a web of equally oppressive forces, ones of
See more of my book reviews on my blog, Literary FlitsAfter such a striking first paragraph, I had high hopes for Nervous Conditions and I wasn't disappointed. First published in the 1980s, I was interested - and somewhat disappointed - to realise that a lot of the issues Dangarembga's characters face are still being written about as present day problems in novels thirty years later. Young Tambudzai is a child at the beginning of our story. She doesn't understand her mother's warning advice
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