Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile

By Huma Ibrahim

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813916852
• ISBN13: 9780813916859
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"