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      Bessie Head

      Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts. ‘… change the world…

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      The Lovers

      Bessie Head

      Expanded and updated collection of short stories using Head’s ‘Tales of Tenderness and Power’ as a basis.

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      AWS Classics When Rain Clouds Gather

      Bessie Head

      The poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, in the heart of rural Botswana, offers a haven to the exiles gathered there.

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      A Question of Power

      Bessie Head

      It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal’s cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the…

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      Bessie Head

      Craig MacKenzie

      Concise overview of Head’s work: essays, novels, and autobiographical writings. Known for recording stories of everyday people in remote areas of Africa.

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      In Conversation with Bessie Head

      Dr. Mary S. Lederer (Independent Scholar, Botswana)

      In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana’s most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in…

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      In Conversation with Bessie Head

      Dr. Mary S. Lederer (Independent Scholar, Botswana)

      In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana’s most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in…

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      Critical Essays on Bessie Head

      Maxine Sample

      Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and…

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      Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile

      Joshua Agbo

      This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head's fiction, including When Rain Clouds Gather, (1969) Maru, (1971) and A Question of Power, (1973), this…

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s Life

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s Life, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s The Lovers

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s The Lovers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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      Bessie Head: The Road of Peace of Mind

      Joyce Johnson

      This book shows how Bessie Head used her engagement with sociopolitical issues to convey her ideas about the art of fiction and the operations of the creative imagination. It relates…

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      When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru

      Bessie Head

      In two powerful novels of belonging, one of Africa’s most important writers explores village life and the traditions of Botswana.

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s Snapshots of a Wedding

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s Snapshots of a Wedding, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s The Prisoner Wore Glasses

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s The Prisoner Wore Glasses, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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      Conceptions of Marginality in the Postcolonial Novel: Revisiting Bessie Head

      Adamu Pangmeshi

      Postcolonial discourse in all its breadth and depth often narrows down to issues of marginality, a situation in which the imperial hegemony subjugates the less privileged peoples to the margins…

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather

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      A Study Guide for Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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      Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile: Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction

      Joshua Agbo (Benue State University, Nigeria)

      This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s fiction, including When Rain Clouds Gather, (1969) Maru, (1971) and A Question of Power, (1973), this…

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      Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

      Lucia Villares

      By reading Clarice Lispector’s work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in which Lispector’s texts raise questions concerning the…

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      Forceful Creation in Harsh Terrain: Place and Identity in Three Novels by Bessie Head

      Maria Olaussen

      Bessie Head (1937-1986) was born in South Africa, but wrote her novels when living as a refugee in Botswana. In her ‘trilogy’: When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Maru (1971) and…

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      Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

      Sol T. Plaatje

      First published in 1916 and one of South Africa’s great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native’s Land Act of 1913…

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      Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: All My Seven Faces

      The first monograph on the decorative, Afrofuturist tableaux of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

      This debut monograph on Botswana-born, Johannesburg- and Toronto-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (born 1980) accompanies a mid-career survey…

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