When Rain Clouds Gather

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478611677

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When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head Pdf

Rural Botswana is the backdrop for When Rain Clouds Gather, the first novel published by one of Africa’s leading woman writers in English, Bessie Head (1937–1986). Inspired by her own traumatic life experiences as an outcast in Apartheid South African society and as a refugee living at the Bamangwato Development Association Farm in Botswana, Head’s tough and telling classic work is set in the poverty-stricken village of Golema Mmidi, a haven to exiles. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionize the villagers’ traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition, opposition from the local chief, and the unrelenting climate threaten to divide and devastate the fragile community. Head’s layered, compelling story confronts the complexities of such topics as social and political change, conflict between science and traditional ways, tribalism, the role of traditional African chiefs, religion, race relations, and male–female relations.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478611615

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Maru by Bessie Head Pdf

Read worldwide for her wisdom, authenticity, and skillful prose, South African–born Bessie Head (1937–1986) offers a moving and magical tale of an orphaned girl, Margaret Cadmore, who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life. The core of this otherworldly, rhapsodic work is a plot about racial injustice and prejudice with a lesson in how traditional intolerance may render whole sections of a society untouchable.

Author : Lisa Bevere
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493407248

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Adamant by Lisa Bevere Pdf

By ancient definition, the adamant was known as both a diamond and a mythical stone of indestructible wonder. In more modern terminology, it describes a posture of unshakeable resolve and determination. If there was ever a time for us to be adamant about love and truth it is now. God is Love. God is Truth. Both love and truth are timeless, transcending our current trends and opinions. Sometimes the most loving thing we will ever do is to speak the truth, but speaking truth begins with living it. Using the mediums of Scripture and story, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Bevere takes readers on a journey into the Mountain of God, to the one place they can learn not only to abide in God's unshakeable truth and love, but become adamant--people who are unmovable, determined, and steadfast. With conviction and passion, Lisa unpacks the concept of the adamant for readers, linking together the grand story of Scripture and God's purpose in their lives. Readers will see that God's plan is revealed as we dwell in him, it is there that we are forged and shaped. As we abide in Christ our Cornerstone we are shaped into the image of the adamant.

Author : Inua Ellams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780008324780

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The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams Pdf

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.

Author : Achmat Dangor
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199713

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Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor Pdf

A Man Booker Prize finalist. “[A] deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettable” (Booklist, starred review). With the publication of Kafka’s Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africa’s political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there. The last time Silas Ali encountered Lt. Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas’s wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband’s participation in Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance twenty years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis’ fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia’s son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents’ pasts. “In the vein of J.M. Coetzee’s novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans,” Bitter Fruit is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (Publishers Weekly). “A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing.” —The Independent “Bitter Fruit has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa.” —The Guardian

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478611646

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The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head Pdf

“Bessie Head’s short stories have an extraordinary simplicity and breadth of vision,” heralded a review in The Tribune after publication of Head’s first collection of short stories, The Collector of Treasures. Regarded today as one of Africa’s best-known woman writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling’s language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, the anthology gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status, position, and plight of African women.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Botswana
ISBN : UOM:39015046438373

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When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head Pdf

It takes a young black idealist, newly arrived from the oppression of South Africa to spur his new neighbors to face reality and control their own destiny.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478635147

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A Question of Power by Bessie Head Pdf

In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock; her mother was white and her father black—a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth eventually leaves with her young son to live in Botswana, a country less oppressed by colonial domination, where she finds stability for herself and her son by working on an experimental farm. As readers grow to know Elizabeth, they experience the inner chaos that threatens her stability, and her constant struggle to emerge from the torment of her dreams. There she is plagued by two men, Sello and Dan, who represent complex notions of politics, sex, religion, individuality, and the blurred line between good and evil. Elizabeth’s troubling but amazing roller-coaster ride ends in an unfettered discovery.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Afrique du Sud
ISBN : 0435909673

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The Cardinals by Bessie Head Pdf

The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event.

Author : Joshua Agbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000398632

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Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile by Joshua Agbo Pdf

This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s novels and short fiction. An exile herself, arriving in Botswana as a South African refugee, Bessie Head’s fiction serves as an important example of African exile literature. This book argues that Head’s characters are driven to exile as a result of their socio- political ambivalence while still in South Africa, and that this sense of discomfort follows them to their new lives. Investigating themes of trauma and identity politics across colonial and post- colonial contexts, this book also addresses the important theme of black- on- black prejudice and hostility which is often overlooked in studies of Head’s work. Covering Head’s shorter fiction as well as her major novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Maru (1971), A Question of Power (1973), Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981), and A Bewitched Crossroads: An African Saga (1984), this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature and postcolonial history.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, South African
ISBN : 0435906038

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A Woman Alone by Bessie Head Pdf

A collection of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays that covers the entire span of Bessie Head's creative life.

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417738189

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When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head Pdf

Two exiles--one white, one black--in a poor village in Botswana struggle with tradition, climate, and the local chief as they try to modernize the villagers' farming methods.

Author : Geoff Wisner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770092068

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A Basket of Leaves by Geoff Wisner Pdf

Capturing the spirit of of Africa—from the desert of Algeria to the savannahs of Kenya, and to the jungles of Equatorial Guinea—this quintessential reader's guide includes reviews and excerpts from notable books from each of Africa's 54 countries. This compilation explores many of the best-known works on Africa, such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (Ghana), The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin (Benin), Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa), Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (Rwanda), and When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head (Botswana).

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Botswana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020437757

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The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head Pdf

Author : James Rumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547505008

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Rain School by James Rumford Pdf

Shows how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.