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Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile
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Bessie HeadAfrican HistoryAfrican LiteratureLiterary TheoryColonialismLiterary CriticismThird WorldPost-colonial CriticismAfrican HumanitiesAfrican American StudiesAfrican DiasporaBlack FeminismSocial SciencesFeminist IdentityCultural HistoryAfrican Studies
This work locates Bessie Head's unquestionable importance in the canon of African literature. It offers a series of readings informed by feminist, diasporan, postcolonial and poststructuralist insights and concerns, tracing Head's subversion of Western hegemonic notions of the third world.