Nervous conditions
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780954702335
Category
BIOGRAPHY & LITERATURE
[ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing, United Kingdom
Subject
Zimbabwe, Literature, Race, Colonialism
Abstract
Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by the Women's Press. The semi-autobiographical novel[1] focuses on the story of a Rhodesian family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions is the first of a proposed trilogy, with The Book of Not published in 2006 as the second novel in the series. The novel attempts to illustrate the dynamic themes of race, colonialism, and gender during the post-colonial conditions of present-day Zimbabwe. The title is taken from the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
Number of Copies
1
