Neshani Andreas (1964–2011)
Autore di The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Opere di Neshani Andreas
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Data di morte
- 2011-05
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Namibia
- Luogo di nascita
- Walvis Bay, South-West Africa (now Namibia)
- Causa della morte
- cancer (lung)
- Istruzione
- Ongwediva Teachers' College
University of Namibia - Attività lavorative
- teacher
- Organizzazioni
- US Peace Corps
Forum of African Women Educationalists in Namibia
National Archives (Namibia)
Utenti
Discussioni
Wrong Melvil Decimal Classification in Talk about LibraryThing (Febbraio 2022)
Recensioni
Liste
Namibia (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 56
- Popolarità
- #291,557
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 3
But then Shange dies suddenly, probably of a heart attack, and Kauna finds hordes of Shange's family descending on her, accusing her of poisoning, witchcraft, and worse, as they strip her of her property. As a widow she might have legal rights in theory, but in practice she is powerless to assert them.
Andreas also touches on quite a number of other issues in the course of this short, simply-written and very engaging novel: another widow is accused of witchcraft when her husband dies of AIDS-related illness, Kauna's aunt makes a precarious living as a market trader, Ali's husband is injured in a collision between overloaded minibuses, and so on. At the very centre of the story is a lively okakungungu, a working party where all the women of the village come together over food and freshly-brewed beer to help Kauna finish her ploughing before the rains.… (altro)