A Question of Madness: Re-Reading Bessie Head's A Question of Power

被引：0

作者：

MacKenzie, Craig ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Univ Johannesburg, English, Johannesburg, South Africa

来源：

CURRENT WRITING-TEXT AND RECEPTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA | 2014年 / 26卷 / 02期

基金：

新加坡国家研究基金会;

关键词：

Bessie Head; A Question of Power; fiction and insanity; autobiographical fiction;

D O I：

10.1080/1013929X.2014.957526

中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

In reassessing A Question of Power, widely regarded as Bessie Head's major work, this article re-examines the biographical context in which the novel was written in order to establish its generative matrix. It then turns to key aspects of the novel and attempts to describe and analyse some of their most puzzling and inexplicable features. The article concludes with an assessment of the novel's value in the corpus of African fiction four decades after its first appearance.

引用

页码：148 / 156

页数：9