Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Hell: the Rhetoric of Universality in Bessie Head
Description:
This dissertation approaches the work of South African/Botswanan novelist Bessie Head, especially the novel A Question of Power, as positioned within the critical framework of the postcolonial paradigm, the genius of which accommodates both African and African American literature without recourse to racial
essentialism. A central problematic of postcolonial literary criticism is the ideological stance postcolonial authors adopt with respect to the ideology of the metropolis, whether on the one …
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Date:
May 1998
Creator:
Edwards, George, Jr.
Partner:
UNT Libraries