Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Men & women: gender issues in Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous conditions' & 'She no longer weeps' |
Author: | Moyana, Rosemary |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | African Literature Today |
Issue: | 20 |
Pages: | 25-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | gender relations literature |
About person: | Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959-) |
Abstract: | In the novel 'Nervous conditions' (1988) and the play 'She no longer weeps' (1987), Tsitsi Dangarembga has portrayed men and women who are antagonistic towards each other. Women in particular have been portrayed differently from those in earlier anglophone literature from Zimbabwe. The women in both the play and the novel clearly undergo some struggle and they emerge as different persons at the end. This article analyses the male and female characters in the two works to demonstrate the nature of the struggle which brings about the revolutionary change in women. The crucial issue the author seems to be addressing in both works is centred on the debate whether or not 'given equal educational and occupational opportunities, women will in fact prove themselves in the world of 'reason''. Ref. |