Bessie Head (1937–1986)
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Bessie Head was born on July 6, 1937 in a mental hospital in South Africa. She was the child of a white mother and a black father. Head's mother had been judged insane for fraternizing with a colored man and committed to the mental hospital while pregnant. After her birth, Head was adopted by a mostra altro coloured woman and raised in the mixed-raced community of Natal, South Africa. Head's birth mother died in the asylum in 1943. After receiving her teaching certificate, Head taught for a short while before taking a job as a newspaper reporter. In 1964, Head migrated to Botswana and began her career as a novelist. When Rain Clouds Gather, Head's first novel, was published in 1968. In the book, Head focuses on the racial hatred and political corruption of her time. Head's other novels include Maru, A Question of Power, and Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, a story set in the village where Head lived. Head also wrote the collections Tales of Tenderness and Power, A Collection of Treasures, and A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings. Bessie Head died on April 17, 1986, at the age of 49. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Bessie Head
Woman from America 1 copia
Opere correlate
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Collaboratore — 187 copie
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 159 copie
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Collaboratore — 150 copie
The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing (African Writers Series) (1993) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Head, Bessie
- Nome legale
- Emery, Bessie Amelia (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1937-07-06
- Data di morte
- 1986-04-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- South Africa
Botswana (from 1979) - Nazione (per mappa)
- Botswana
- Luogo di nascita
- Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
- Luogo di morte
- Serowe, Botswana
- Causa della morte
- Hepatitis
- Luogo di residenza
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Serowe, Botswana
Durban, South Africa - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer - Organizzazioni
- Drum
Pan Africanist Congress
The New African - Premi e riconoscimenti
- The Order of Ikhamanga in Gold
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