The Resource Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie
Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie
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The item Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
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- "When the depredations of apartheid forced most of her contemporaries into exile in Britain, Europe, and the United States, the South African writer Bessie Head (1937-1986) chose to move to neighboring Botswana, by South African standards then a dry, dusty, and undeveloped backwater. And where her fellow writers chose apartheid's depredations as the subject for their searing social indictments, Head turned for inspiration to local sources, recording in stories of parable-like intensity the daily lives of people in a remote African village
- She is perhaps the only black African writer who has successfully dealt with the tensions and torments of her own life - madness, guilt, vexed personal relationships, loneliness, exile - and the often haunting results have won her a growing following in critical circles, most notably among feminists, who see her as having been victimized not only by South Africa's brutal racial politics but also by patriarchal attitudes among African men." "In this overview of Head's work, Craig MacKenzie argues that the physical journey Head took from South Africa to Botswana has a special resonance in her writing, in which she moves from disintegration to wholeness, from alienation to commitment."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 140 pages
- Contents
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- Early life
- The cardinals (ca. 1962)
- In exile in Botswana
- When rain clouds gather (1968)
- Maru (1971)
- A question of power (1973)
- Putting down roots
- The collector of treasures (1977)
- Serowe: village of the rain wind (1981)
- A bewitched crossroad (1984)
- Posthumously published works: Tales of tenderness and power (1989) and A woman alone (1990)
- The critics' view
- Isbn
- 9780805716290
- Label
- Bessie Head
- Title
- Bessie Head
- Statement of responsibility
- Craig MacKenzie
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "When the depredations of apartheid forced most of her contemporaries into exile in Britain, Europe, and the United States, the South African writer Bessie Head (1937-1986) chose to move to neighboring Botswana, by South African standards then a dry, dusty, and undeveloped backwater. And where her fellow writers chose apartheid's depredations as the subject for their searing social indictments, Head turned for inspiration to local sources, recording in stories of parable-like intensity the daily lives of people in a remote African village
- She is perhaps the only black African writer who has successfully dealt with the tensions and torments of her own life - madness, guilt, vexed personal relationships, loneliness, exile - and the often haunting results have won her a growing following in critical circles, most notably among feminists, who see her as having been victimized not only by South Africa's brutal racial politics but also by patriarchal attitudes among African men." "In this overview of Head's work, Craig MacKenzie argues that the physical journey Head took from South Africa to Botswana has a special resonance in her writing, in which she moves from disintegration to wholeness, from alienation to commitment."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- MacKenzie, Craig
- Dewey number
- 823
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9369.3.H4
- LC item number
- Z77 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Twayne's world authors series
- Series volume
- TWAS 882
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women and literature
- Head, Bessie
- South Africa
- Botswana
- Label
- Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-135) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Early life -- The cardinals (ca. 1962) -- In exile in Botswana -- When rain clouds gather (1968) -- Maru (1971) -- A question of power (1973) -- Putting down roots -- The collector of treasures (1977) -- Serowe: village of the rain wind (1981) -- A bewitched crossroad (1984) -- Posthumously published works: Tales of tenderness and power (1989) and A woman alone (1990) -- The critics' view
- Control code
- 40542966
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 140 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805716290
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 98055671
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-135) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Early life -- The cardinals (ca. 1962) -- In exile in Botswana -- When rain clouds gather (1968) -- Maru (1971) -- A question of power (1973) -- Putting down roots -- The collector of treasures (1977) -- Serowe: village of the rain wind (1981) -- A bewitched crossroad (1984) -- Posthumously published works: Tales of tenderness and power (1989) and A woman alone (1990) -- The critics' view
- Control code
- 40542966
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 140 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805716290
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 98055671
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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