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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
ISBN: 0613461576
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Coming of age in a traditional culture within colonized Rhodesia {in the 1960s and '70s}, the protagonist must wrestle with the contradictions entailed in her 'development.' Only after her elder brother's death does she receive the patronage of an uncle whose European education makes him a 'deity' to Tambudzai. Her determination to share in the power and privilege of his worldis modified by relationships with the women in her extended family. Her mother's crushed acceptance of oppression, her aunt's limited resistance, and her cousin Nyasha's bold but psychologically costly challenges to masculine power all help Tambudzai to find her own way." (Choice)
| | | | From The Publisher
Immediately hailed as a classic (Atlantic Monthly called it "the best contemporary novel on colonialism to be written by an African woman"), Nervous Conditions is a wrenching chronicle of the coming of age of Tambu, a teenage girl in 1960s Rhodesia, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin, Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, thinks her dreams have come true when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her education. But education at his mission school comes with a price. There she meets sophisticated Nyasha, whose rebellion against her father brings disaster. With irony and skill, Dangarembga explores the struggle of two young women to liberate themselves in a society still suffering the effects of colonization. This edition of this highly acclaimed novel is "an expression of liberation not to be missed." — Alice Walker
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Sartre was right 
-- Jon Hiatt, an English major from MN, May 28, 2002
Also Recommended: Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon); Nisanit (Faqir); Xala (Senegalese film, 1974); The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)
the feminine condition
-- Tebuho Malumo, A freshman in Columbus Georgia, April 27, 1999
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
"This is the novel we have been waiting for....I am sure it will be a classic." —Doris Lessing
"Sardonic, coolly observant, splendidly detached from every form of chauvinistic nonesence, 'Nervous Conditions' introduces a new voice that, in its self-assurance, sounds, at times, very old. As if the African sisters, mothers and cousins of antiquity were, at last, beginning to reassert themselves in these perilous times, and to speak." —Alice Walker
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