In Conversation with Bessie Head av Dr. Mary S. (Independent Scholar Botswana) Lederer

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<i>In Conversation with Bessie Head</i> shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana''s most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two parallel threads, the first regarding Mary S. Lederer''s own history of reading Head¿from her first purchase of <i>Maru</i>, through completing a Ph.D. on Head''s trilogy, through living in Botswana and connecting with various aspects of Head''s life, to examining how reading Head has affected her own development as a human being. This history then ties each chapter into discussion of how Head develops her own vision of the ¿brotherhood of man.¿ Alongside critically informed discussion, Head¿s vision is examined through the prism of specific questions. Why is madness not a useful concept for understanding Head¿s ideas? Why did Head say she was not a feminist, and what is the significance of ¿male¿ and ¿female¿ in her novels? What