This study explores the triple imbrications of race, power and gender in the selected
novels of Bessie Head. A critical analysis of Maru (1971) and A Question of' Power
(1974) is undertaken with a view to identifying the ...
This study critically explores the numerous strains of “madness” that Zimbabwean authors represent in their postcolonial literature. My focus is on their reflection of “madness” as either an individual state of being, or ...
In the existing literature, the constructs of "madness" and "woman' have long
been associated with one another. This association has led to attempts by various
authors, and also this current work, to deconstruct the ...
The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both
including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter
considers the representation of ...