Produktinformation

• Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #402833 in Bücher
• Veröffentlicht am: 1996-06
• Originalsprache: Englisch
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• 206 Seiten

From Publishers Weekly
Tambu, an adolescent living in colonial Rhodesia of the '60s, seizes the opportunity to leave her rural community to study at the missionary school run by her wealthy, British-educated uncle. With an uncanny and often critical self-awareness, Tambu narrates this skillful first novel by a Zimbabwe native. Like many heroes of the bildungsroman, Tambu, in addition to excelling at her curriculum, slowly reaches some painful conclusions--about her family, her proscribed role as a woman, and the inherent evils of colonization. Tambu often thinks of her mother, "who suffered from being female and poor and uneducated and black so stoically." Yet, she and her cousin, Nyasha, move increasingly farther away from their cultural heritage. At a funeral in her native village, Tambu admires the mourning of the women, "shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out." In many ways, this novel becomes Tambu's keening--a resonant, eloquent tribute to the women in her life, and to their losses.
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Kurzbeschreibung
A classic of African women's fiction.

Synopsis
Colonial Rhodesia in the early 1960s is the setting for this first novel.

Kundenrezensionen

Simply riveting
"Nervous conditions" is a book about colonialism and the alienating influence it has on people who lose touch with their roots. It is a dilemma for African children who are seeking education who often find that in adopting the new culture of the colonizers, they often can no longer associate with the traditional ways of their own people. This superbly written book will touch any reader to the core. The writer clearly dissected the negative effects of colonialism and the settler-politics that caused so much strife in Zimbabwe, creating two tragedies in the persons of Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe. This very powerful and touching novel is not only revealing but also opens our minds to more questions, the most powerful of which is the problem of the "colonized mind', a diseases that is still plaguing Africa until today.
Another good recommendation is DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE, THE OLD MAN AND THE MEDAL

Frauen unter der Macht des Patriarchat
Ein wirklich gelungenes Buch, dass von Anfang bis Ende spannend bleibt. Schwerpunkt ist die Schwierigkeit eines schwarzen Mädchens in einer Welt, die von Männern dominiert wird, zu bestehen. Zudem lernt sie die Vor-und Nachteile der westlichen Welt kennen, die sie durch ihre Jugend hindurch prägen werden.
Sehr informativ, auch wenn man nicht unbedingt die feministische Literatur schätzt!

A Masterpiece
I first read this book a few year s ago now but keep on revisiting it. It is a wonderful piece of literature, briliantly evocative of childhood, belonging, and innumerable other timeless themes.

I would encourage anyone to read this novel and am confident that it will be savoured