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This mournable body : a novel

Title
This mournable body : a novel / Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Author
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Publication
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
284 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  • "Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be."--Amazon.com.
  • Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. An act of betrayal reveals just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be. -- adapted from Amazon.com info
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction.
Call Number
Sc D 18-439
ISBN
  • 9781555978129
  • 1555978126
LCCN
2017953356
OCLC
1033562252
Author
Dangarembga, Tsitsi, author.
Title
This mournable body : a novel / Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Publisher
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 18-439
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