Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988), Fanon, and Bildung of a “Native Woman”
In the classical Bildungsroman Nervous Conditions, the epigraphic invocation to Frantz Fanon frames Tambu’s colonial Bildung. Examining the contested question of the dialectical success of Tambu’s colonial Bildung from within the Fanonian theorization of the tripartite development of the consciousne...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2024
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | In the classical Bildungsroman Nervous Conditions, the epigraphic invocation to Frantz Fanon frames Tambu’s colonial Bildung. Examining the contested question of the dialectical success of Tambu’s colonial Bildung from within the Fanonian theorization of the tripartite development of the consciousness of the colonized intellectual, which culminates in a dialectical resolution, i.e. the representative évolué consciousness, I argue that the novel interrupts precisely such a self-formation in the elision of Tambu’s actual Bildung. This form of Bildungsroman sans Bildung opens the space for Fanon’s decolonizing project, what I call, nationalitarian Bildung, in contrast to the Manichean delirium of colonial Bildung. Nationalitarian Bildung produces national consciousness and the nation-people. Moreover, I show that the “native women” in the novel learn a Fanonian lesson that national consciousness is alone capable of producing an international dimension. |
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