Bessie Head; the road of peace of mind; a critical appreciation.9780874130096 Bessie Head Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986) is usually considered Botswana's most important writer. She was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa. ; the road of peace of mind; a critical appreciation. Johnson, Joyce. Univ. of Delaware Press 2008 222 pages $51.50 Hardcover PR9369 South African author Bessie Head wrote novels and short stories that reflected the life of native Africans under Apartheid. Studies of her work have concentrated on how her experiences formed her literature. Johnson (English, Delaware State University Delaware State University (DSU), the second-largest university in the state of Delaware, is a historically black university. Over the last 116 years, it has evolved into a fully accredited, comprehensive university with a main campus located in Dover, Delaware and two satellite , emerita e·mer·i·ta adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement. Used of a woman: a professor emerita. n. pl. ) instead studies Head's work in search of her literary influences. Like most writers, Head was first a reader. Johnson finds traces of nineteenth century gothic Century Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed for Monotype Imaging in 1991. Century Gothic takes inspiration from Sol Hess's Twentieth Century, which was drawn between 1937 and 1947 for the Lanston Monotype Company as a version of the successful Futura typeface, but novels and early feminist literature as well as Plato, Coleridge and Yeats. She demonstrates how this wide reading along with Head's own awareness of the mutability mu·ta·ble adj. 1. a. Capable of or subject to change or alteration. b. Prone to frequent change; inconstant: mutable weather patterns. 2. of the creative process informed her fiction. Head wrote from her own life and culture but her self-perception as a writer grew from a belief in the universality of the writing process. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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