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In Conversation with Bessie Head

In Conversation with Bessie Head

Lederer, Mary S.

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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1501371436
ISBN13: 9781501371431
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 24 2020
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two parallel threads, the first regarding Mary S. Lederer's own history of reading Head-from her first purchase of Maru, through completing a Ph.D. on Head's trilogy, through living in Botswana and connecting with various aspects of Head's life, to examining how reading Head has affected her own development as a human being. This history then ties each chapter into discussion of how Head develops her own vision of the brotherhood of man.

Alongside critically informed discussion, Head's vision is examined through the prism of specific questions. Why is madness not a useful concept for understanding Head's ideas? Why did Head say she was not a feminist, and what is the significance of male and female in her novels? What is the relationship between individual, race, and community? How can the nature of God be a clear expression of love but also an indistinct force for both good and evil? Head's novels present opportunities for personal growth, and through these conversations with her, we become different readers.

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