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Constructing an alternative language: Historical revision in the fiction of Bessie Head
Through consideration of Bessie Head's fiction and essays, the paper that follows investigates Head's use of fiction to challenge the hegemony of South African history, a history that fails to represent black South Africans except as "objects of abuse and exploitation" (Head, A Woman Alone 66). The...
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Department of English Language and Literature
2016
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