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Bessie Head (1937 – 1986)
Nationality: Botswanan Other: South African | Periods: African |
Teacher, journalist and writer
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Criticism about Bessie Head
- The Universality of Tragedy? The Case of Bessie Head
- http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/IFR/bin/get.cgi?directory=Vol.26/&…
- The paper’s author aims “to examine several stories by Bessie Head from her collection The Collector of Treasures as the basis for a discussion of the universality of tragedy. At issue here are such questions as these: Is it legitimate to maintain our belief that tragedy is universal? Or is it necessary to acknowledge that tragedy merely represents a cultural construct “
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Earl G. Ingersoll
- From: International Fiction Review 1999; 26 no. 1-2:36-45
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Biographical sites about Bessie Head
- Bessie Head
- http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Head.html
- ‘Life of the South African expatriate writer, with bibliography.”
- Contains: Pictures, Sketch, Bibliography, Works List
- Author: Kate Bissell
- From: Postcolonial Studies at Emory
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Other sites about Bessie Head
- On the Bessie Head trail
- http://www.mg.co.za/mg/books/9807/980720-bessie.html
- “Stephen Gray recently attended a conference in Botswana in honour of South African writer Bessie Head, who settled there.”
- Contains: Pictures, Commentary
- Author: Stephen Gray
- From: Books July 20, 1998
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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013