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Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga

  • 205 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 21 editions
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1 About this book

This is a book about the oppression of women by men. Men in a society have more rights than women and the women have to succumb to anything that men say. It also touches on religion and explains the roles of men and women. It also tells us about a young lady 'Nyasha" who left her home with her prents for England and went through a process called ASSIMILATION,which means that he suffered cultural schizophrenia.

  • Country life
  • Psychological fiction
  • Africa
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Social life and customs
  • Postcolonialism

2 About Tsitsi Dangarembga

Born 1959

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize.

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