The Creative Vision of Bessie Head [Hardcover]

Coreen Brown (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 2003

This book explores how HeadOs writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 244 pages
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0838639828
ISBN-13: 978-0838639825
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,463,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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