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Bessie Head
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Pages: 206 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0435907204
Pub: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks
Pub date: 1986-07-17
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102483
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Excellent read (0/0 people found this helpful)
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head makes a deep exploration into the life of a woman in her world which is governed by every day efforts of the characters to exercise control or have an edge over those they are dealing with. Brilliantly written, this fast moving and deep novel is a recommended book for someone interested in women in this politically liberal part of Africa.
Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, WEEP NOT CHILD, TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE
Excellent read (1/1 people found this helpful)
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head makes a deep exploration into the life of a woman in her world which is governed by every day efforts of the characters to exercise control or have an edge over those they are dealing with. Brilliantly written, this fast moving and deep novel is a recommended book for someone interested in women in this politically liberal part of Africa.
Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, WEEP NOT CHILD
A very powerful novel about evil and power (4/4 people found this helpful)
This is the most powerful, complicated novel of all Head's novels. Through Elizabeth, the protagonist, Head has moved the politics of Apartheid South Africa to Botswana, Elizabeth's new adopted country, which begins to feel as oppressive to her as South Africa. Elizabeth falls into nightmarish visions, filled with evil forces and misogynist men. The novel is divided into two parts; within each part, there is also the external world of Motabeng village where Elizabeth interacts with real characters and the internal world of her psyche where she struggles with her own psychological projections: Dan, Sello and Medusa. A very good read from a woman writer whose own personal suffering as a colored in South Africa and whose humanistic vision for human coexistence and tolerance underlies most of the novel.
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