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Title: Nervous Conditions 3 Ed by Tsitsi Dangarembga ISBN: 1580050638 Publisher: Seal Pr Feminist Pub Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful
Comment: I think the other reviewers have covered everything that needs to be said about this novel - and quite well I might add. After having the novel on my bookshelf for 2 years, I finally got a chance to read it over the Christmas holiday - I regret that I waited so long. I was so touched by this story. I wasn't sure if I would be able to relate to the characters at all, because their world is very different from my own. But I found myself identifying strongly with Nyasha (sorry if I mispelled her name) and by the end of the book I was crying for both her and myself. This book is about (in my opinion) oppression of the self and I think that this is a topic that is accesible to a lot of different people. I think that for young women it is especially salient. This is a quick read and well worth any time that you spend on it - I highly recommend it.
Rating: 3
Summary: informative loook at post-colonial Africa
Comment: I learned some interesting things about Africa and indigineous vs. colonized society, and I felt like, after shutting the book, I had expanded my knowledge in an area I will never truly be able to understand.
As far as story goes within the novel, I felt like I was getting a little too much "tell" instead of "show," and that it was almost set up in vignettes as opposed to a whole novel. The last paragraph made me feel like the novel wasn't ending, but merely closing a chapter.
All in all, I would say read it, for it isn't a story one often hears, and it was very interesting, but read it more for expansion than story.
Rating: 5
Summary: powerful!
Comment: I've always considered myself to be very understanding of women, especially women of the same stature and situation as the female characters of the book, but the book did expand my understanding of their condition. When I read the book I saw my mother who grew up in South Africa under situations similar to Tambu's. Although Tambu manages to rise from her condition with something on her hands, an education that is, most of these women get cought on the situation and they never escape it. I could relate to the book because I've seen how women are expected to conform to a male dominated community where they are not expected to question the men in their lives. As I've lived and am still living in modern South Africa for my whole 19 years I've seen and still see the Nyasha's that have to deal with the same men as in the book and still expected to be modern women. I found the book to be very true of the African women's situation and saw a reflection of somebody I know in Jeremiah. Here is a man who had to live in his brothers shadow for all his life. He is poor and lazy, and the only thing that he knows he has control over are the women in his life. I am not trying to sympathise with the character but his situation on the book should be understood. As a modern African man I've learnt to treat women as equals and although that may be there still exist a group of men who can't handle the truth. Tis book will help a lot of people in understanding how women, especially in rural communities, had to live and still live in Southern Africa. A powerful book and a great asset to African literature!
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Title: So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba ISBN: 0435905554 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 0385474547 Publisher: Anchor Books Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta ISBN: 0807609501 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Our Sister Killjoy: Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (African Classics) by Ama Ata Aidoo ISBN: 0582308453 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ISBN: 0435909878 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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