Essays about: "Tsitsi Dangarembga"

Found 4 essays containing the words Tsitsi Dangarembga.

  1. 1. "It's the Englishness" : Bildung and Personality Forming as Postcolonial Criticism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Johan Nyoni Triyono; [2020]
    Keywords : Tsitsi Dangarembga; Nervous Conditions; Frantz Fanon; Homi K. Bhabha; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; The mirror stage; The master and slave dialectic; Identity formation; Zimbabwe; Rhodesia;

    Abstract : Through a close reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, this essay shows the key links between the novel and Frantz Fanon’s major works. In addition to providing a deeper understanding of Dangarembga’s narrative as a whole, it takes into particular consideration the em­bedded criticism of colonialism in the text. READ MORE

  3. 2. "More than just food" : Exploring and problematising the notion of blind consumption and blind refusal to consume in Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions" in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)

    Author : Tz-Yu Chang; [2019]
    Keywords : Nervous Conditions; consumption; postcolonial; upper secondary school; critical thinking skills; eating disorders; ideologies and values; EFL classroom;

    Abstract : Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous Conditions problematises the notion of consumption by making connections between ideologies and values and physical food substances, and places them within greater systems of gender and cultural oppression in a postcolonial context. By examining the ways in which unquestioning or blind, or complete refusal of, consumption affects different aspects of health in the novel, students in the EFL classroom are given a chance to develop and apply critical thinking skills to achieve an awareness for the importance of balance when maintaining healthy relationships not only to ideologies and values, but to food and mental well-being as well. READ MORE

  4. 3. I'm Not One of Them but I'm Not One of You : An Analysis of The Effects of Patriarchy and Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Donjeta Osmani; [2019]
    Keywords : Nervous Conditions; Tambudzai; Nyasha; Cultural Hybridity; Patriarchy; Feminism;

    Abstract : This essay examines how the factors that inspire Tambudzai and Nyasha to counter the patriarchy are portrayed and how these factors contribute to the formation of hybrid identities among the younger generation of women in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Both characters are faced with different predicaments which makes it necessary to divide the factors in regard to each character. READ MORE

  5. 4. Kambili and Tambudzai: Inspirational Young Women from Africa

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Katarina Adolfsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Africa; gender; inspirational; post-colonial; young women; Nigeria; Zimbabwe;

    Abstract : This essay explores the living conditions of the main characters Kambili in Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tambudzai in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga and their struggle to achieve personal freedom. It aims to show that colonial stereotypes are challenged through the girl´s struggles. READ MORE