The Interaction of ‘Race’ and Gender as Cultural Constructs in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions illustrates the way in which colonial cultural constructs, especially ‘race’, inhibit the construction of sexual identity. The relationship between coloniser and colonised somehow parallels that between males and females. The colonial experience exacerbates gender attitudes within...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | Nervous Conditions illustrates the way in which colonial cultural constructs, especially ‘race’, inhibit the construction of sexual identity. The relationship between coloniser and colonised somehow parallels that between males and females. The colonial experience exacerbates gender attitudes within the colonised community and prevents the women in the novel from constructing their sexual and social identity harmoniously. |
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