Nervous Conditions

NERVOUS CONDITIONS (TSITSI DANGAREMBA) Nervous conditions, is a novel by Tsitsi Dangaremba, the novel depict women facing different problems. Each woman in the novel find her own way of dealing with her problem. The problems are related to patriarchy which contributes significantly to the oppression of women in Africa. According to patriarchal fundamentalism, the Universe was created and is ruled by a male god who created men in his image to worship him. Everything else is non-divine and belongs…

Frantz Fanon ridiculed the affected pretentiousness of Martinician "been-tos" in Black Skin, White Masks, and the cultural confusion of the been-to Nyasha and her family in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is one of the fundamental theme in that novel. The characters in Nervous Conditions who have not had the same experience of travel in the west find the desire of those who have returned to impose their English values, language, and religion on everyone else confusing and unpleasant.…

effect of colonialism in Dangerembga’s Nervous Condition. It attempts to investigate the negative and positive effects of imperialism on Dangerebga’s fictional characters and by extension the Zimbabwean society, using the postcolonial critical approach. The work contends that Nervous Conditions is Dangerembga’s attempt to record history for society and not a gender centred work even as the present study distances from it. Introduction Dangerembga’s Nervous Conditions has received scholarly…

“…my story is not after all about death, but about my escape and Lucia’s; about my mother’s and Maiguru’s entrapment; and about Nyasha’s rebellion…” (p. 1). In the novel, Nervous Conditions, the reader is introduced to a very traditional Shona family in the 1960s by the teenage protagonist and narrator, Tambudzai Sigauke, from Rhodesia, Zimbabwe. We quickly learn that all is not well with the different branches of this particular family, especially with the women, each being oppressed in their…

Maiguru and Mainini’s Struggle With Entrapment: Analysis of the Complex Role of Power Within Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga dramatizes individual struggles with patriarchal power to address the issues of colonization and entrapment within her novel Nervous Conditions. The traditionally enforced roles of women and men within the Rhodesian culture bridged a power gap between the genders, allowing patriarchal power to develop and dominate society. This issue is prevalent throughout all…

Nervous Conditions is a novel written by Tsitsi Dangarembga that tells the story of four women living in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe. This book shows the struggle that the main character Tambudzai and her female family members all face during the colonization of their country. Tambu’s cousin, Nyasha and her Aunt, Maiguru are all extremely relevant characters and they must endure this oppressive demeanor forced on them by their society. One very significant character in Nervous Conditions is Nyasha,…

The logo was regarded as unlikable by thirteen out of the twenty participants in the control condition compared to only five in the experimental condition. The results show that they were statistically significant, therefore, they were not down to just chance alone. In consideration of this the results support the hypothesis that if the DE100 logo is paired with a corresponding…

In the book Nervous Conditions, Taitsi Dangarembga explores the effects of gender roles and submission on women. Stereotypical gender roles in Rhodesian culture often portray women as inferior to the men around them. The wives and daughters depicted in the book are expected to serve their husbands and fathers and consider their own wants and needs to be secondary to the males’. Generally, the women comply with this treatment, though it ultimately takes a toll on their minds. Dangarembga develops…

Evaluative conditioning is defined as a change in liking, which occurs due to an association with a positive or negative stimulus (De Houwer et al, 2001). An example of how evaluative conditioning is used in the real world is positive association, for example, in influencing our food likes and dislikes. A previous study by Hollands et al (2011) looked at whether pairing images of energy-dense snack foods such as cakes and biscuits, with images of potential effects such as obese people could…

significant, indicating a significantly higher difference between the liking logo in the experimental condition and control condition. We predicted that pairing the DE 100 IPTV logo with positive image will make people like it. Our research confirmed the hypothesis that experimental condition had a greater proportion of participants who liked the logo DE 100 IPTV compare to those in control condition. Similarly like Chen et al.’s study (cited in Brace,…