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Author_Gillian Eilersen
Bessie Head
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exile
journalist
mixed race
schizophrenia
South Africa
Product details
- ISBN 9780852555354
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1995
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bessie Head's novels include Where Rain Clouds Gather and A Question of Power .
This biography details the life of Bessie Head - a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad becauseher father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a person of mixed race and a woman, she made her way in South Africa as a journalist. Her exile in rural Botswana was in marked contrast to the intensely urban backgrounds of most other South African writers. Her fierce determination to take root was reflected in her first novel Where Rain Clouds Gather. But she was kept a refugee for 15 years before she was granted citizenship of Botswana. Her most frightening novel, A Question of Power vividly captures the shifting dislocations of schizophrenia.
South Africa: Witwatersrand University Press
