Black and Female: Essays
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Black and Female: Essays
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Trenchant.
The author turns her withering attention more acutely upon her nation’s politics via forthright — and sometimes overly broad — polemic. In essays that range from an account of her writing life to an examination of the reasons feminism has failed to win victories for Zimbabwean women, Dangarembga weaves personal and material histories to explain how race and gender are lived in her country. The result is a compelling collection that sometimes stumbles, leaving this reader pining for her trademark exactitude.
A rallying cry for the transformative power of writing; not only to help us make sense of our place in the world... but to lend us the imagination and courage to change it.
Short, serious and powerful.
An extensive declaration of selfhood.
To Dangarembga, continuing black female suffering is 'the metaphysical equivalent of a phantom limb', resulting from a violent, patriarchal British colonial project. She is at her best when examining that project’s historical features and contemporary ramifications.
An essential addition to academic collections on race and gender. The moments where she shares her crisis over selfhood as a child and how that search for identity carried over into adulthood are some of the most powerful parts of the book..