Negotiating the postcolonial : emerging perspectives on Tstsi Dangarembga / edited by Ann Elizabeth Willey and Jeanette Treiber

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nervous collusions of nation and gender : Tsitsi Dangarembga's challenge to Fanon / Heather Zwicker -- Tradition, modernity and the family as nation : reading the Chimurenga struggle into and out of Nervous conditions / Susan Z. Andrade -- Modernity, alienation and development : Nervous conditions and the female paradigm / Ann Elizabeth Willey -- Strategic fusions : undermining cultural essentialism in Nervous conditions / Jeanette Treiber -- Indexing her digests : working through Nervous conditions / Brendon Nicholls -- Moving forward from death : cultural autopsy as a guide to the living / Jeffrey Geller -- Dangarembga's dirty work : acting up and speaking out, "Good medicine" for Africa / Giuliana Lund -- Some very nervous conditions : commodity, culture and identity in Dangarembga's novel / Sally Ann Murray -- Women and food in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Kelli Donovan Wixson -- "Two disconnected entities" : the pitfalls of knowing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Linda E. Chown -- Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions : an African woman's revisionist narrative / Mary Jane Androne -- Reading "The letter" of a woman : narrative strategies in Dangarembga's story of Apartheid South Africa / Jacqueline Wigfall -- Empracing the shadow : recognizing liminality in Dangarembga's Jungian undercurrents / Kgomotso Masemola