The life and work of Bessie Head : a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of her birth / edited by Mary S. Lederer ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lederer, Mary S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Head, Bessie, 1937-1986--Congresses.

Head, Bessie.

Head, Bessie, 1937-1986.

Women authors, South African--Biography--Congresses.

Women authors, South African.

Women and literature--Africa, Southern--Congresses.

Women and literature.

Southern Africa.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 293 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gaborone, Botswana : Pentagon Publishers, 2008.

Contents:

Origins of the Bessie Head archive / Maria Rytter

Miss Marpling around Southern Africa : the confessions of an amateur researcher / Gillian Stead Eilersen

Fa maru a pula a kokoana : translating Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather into Setswana / Barulaganye (Thedi) Modongo

The politics of naming in Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather / Leloba S. Molema

The depiction of the caste system in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Bessie Head's Maru / K.N. Kgafela

The significance of Bessie Head's response to The call of the global green / Sonja Darlington

Translating, writing, and gendering cultures : Bessie Head's Serowe, village of the rain wind / Charlotte Broad

Ecumenical readings of Bessie Head / Bruce S. Bennett

Motswana ke mang? : Tswana culture and values in Plaatje, Head, and McCall Smith / Grant Lilford

Continuity and roots : Bessie Head and the issue of narrative identity in fiction and autobiography / Ann Langwadt

The Black antecedents of Bessie Amelia Emery Head / Tom Holzinger

Raising hell : the body as text in selected letters of Bessie Head / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

Women at Point Zero : a comparison of prison narratives by Nawal El Saadawi and Bessie Head / Bobana Badisang

Boundaries and beyond : issues of resistance and control in the work of Bessie Head / Sarah Mandow

Discarding the encumbrance of tradition : libertarian impulses in Bessie Head's Botswana tales / Tiro Sebina

The narcissistic personality in Bessie Head's A question of power / Fani-Kayode Omoregie

Letter by letter : Bessie Head's epistolary art / Linda-Susan Beard

Bessie Head, the liberation struggle, and personal and political transformation / Cecil Abrahams

Memories of Bessie Head's Tshekedi Memorial School pupils / Seatholo Masego Tumedi

Homage to Bessie / Motsomi Marobela

Memories of Bessie Head and her admiration for Sol T. Plaatje / Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane

Bessie Head and Doris Lessing : reading and influence in fiction and autobiography / Cheryl-Ann Michael

Everyone had a place in my world : Bessie Head's utopia in When rain clouds gather / Modhumita Roy

Epistolary transgressions / V.M. Maqagi

Interview with Patrick van Rensburg, friend of Bessie and founder of Serowe's Swaneng Hill School and the brigade movement in Botswana / Gillian Stead Eilersen and Seatholo Masego Tumedi.

Notes:

Papers from conferences held in Gaborone and Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789991248783

9991248781

OCLC:

362053781