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The Cardinals (African Writers Series)

1 review
Bessie Head

Heinemann, 1995

A Masterpiece
Cardinals is a novel that questions traditional notions of love, family, geneology, and family. Head hints at incest and breaks down the binaries of father-daughter, master-slave, man-woman. THe book is a quick read (under 2 hours). THe dialogue is bizarre, as are the characters and at moments, I felt an urge to scream from the insanity of it all. However, Head is a revolutionary, challenging the ...

Call Me Woman
Ellen Kuzwayo

Aunt Lute Books, 1995

autobiography of South African activist

The Collector of Treasures (African Writers Series)

1 review
Bessie Head

Heinemann (Txt), 1992

Bessie Head's "The Collector of Treasures" raises awareness to womens civil rights or lack thereof.
On the level of moral philosophy, Bessie Head's tales examine the development of a civilization and the ethical views established throughout their expansion. Her accounts institute lessons about love and romance, rituals, new religion, law, and material wealth. Bessie brilliantly sets the foundation of her collection with an extraordinary account of the origin of the Botswana village. The ...

WHEN RAIN CLD GTHR

14 reviews
Bessie head

Simon & Schuster, 1969

rare portrayal of African village life
A story about a black refugee from South Africa who finds a new home and the meaning of life in a small Botwana village. This book is a rare contemporary well-written portrayal of African village life, values, and impediments to progress.

Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind

2 reviews
Bessie Head

Heinemann, 2008

Bessie Head has done it again
This book changed the way I saw Africa. It's one of those rare books you come upon that makes you a better citizen of the world. If you haven't read it yet, read it and then read MARU also by B.Head. Serowe is a difficult book to hunt down but it's well worth it.

A Question of Power (African Writers Series)

1 review
Bessie Head

Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, 1974

multiple facets of power
I was recommended this book and told "it's about a woman's descent into madness. But A Question of Power is much more than that. It presents the life of a woman of mixed heritage in South Africa and Botswana. The reader is allowed into her mind and taken to a place where one may question one's own sanity, in imitative form. Her relationships--and the novel at large--invite a probing of our ...

Maru

6 reviews
Bessie Head

McCall Pub. Co, 1971

Read this book
Political, romantic, and dense, what a wonderful and well-written book. I came upon this book by accident and became quite delighted with the story. The characters and the town really came alive on the pages. The imagery was beautiful and mythic. I just wish it were longer.

Deep Cuts (Graphic literature from Africa)
Can Themba, Alex Laguma, ...

Maskew Miller Longman Pty.Ltd ,South Africa, 1993

A Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (African Writers Series)
Bessie Head

Heinemann, 1989

A sequence of Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society told with all the skill that one has come to expect of Bessie Head.

A Gesture of Belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979
Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne

Heinemann, 1991

"I was born on the 6 July 1937 in the Pietermaritzburg Mental Hospital in South Africa. The reason for my peculiar birthplace was that my mother was white, and she had acquired me from a black man. She was judged insane, and committed to the mental hospital while pregnant." Bessie Head, one of Africa's greatest writers, corresponded with Randolph Vigne, a political and literary friend from her Cape Town days, then editor of The New African in ...

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