African writers series A Woman Alone

Type

Book

Authors

Bessie Head

ISBN 10

0435906038

ISBN 13

9780435906030

Tags

African-American & Black, Women, Criticism & Theory, Movements & Periods, African American, Women Authors, Women Writers, African, American Literature, Political Science

Series Name

African writers series

Description

Intense personal experiences of South Africa’s brutal social system, a sense of stifled creativity and a distaste for politics made Bessie Head leave for Botswana on an exit permit at the age of 27. There, in her chosen rural ‘haven’ of Serowe, and despite a severe mental breakdown, she wrote the novels and stories that earned her international recognition as one of Africa’s most remarkabble and individual writers. A Woman Alone is a collections of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays which covers the entire span of Bessie Head’s creative life, up to her death in 1986 at age 49. It reveals a woman of great sensitivity and vitality, inspired through her knowledge of suffering in a ‘reverence for ordinary people’ and finding some healing for her own anguish in a quiet corner of Africa. - from Amzon

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references

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