Tsitsi Dangarembga

express her opinion. Which is to say that she learned women are not to express their opinions at all. Tambu observes that “for most of her life my mother’s mind, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, had not been hers to make up” (Dangarembga 155). What she sees is that women are meant to passively accept their object-like positions and make the pleasing of males the top priority in their lives. Tambu also senses this attitude in her aunt, Maiguru, when she is describing the…

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…

and self-perceived as superior, imposing its morals, values, technology, and culture upon another group of people. This intrusion into an established identity of a people could instead be viewed as rather unreasonable. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga portrays the struggles of different people living in Rhodesia Africa from the 1960s to 1970s. The book is mainly centered around female characters struggling with their identity and discovering…

Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness functioned as a central influence to anyone that desired to lengthen their familiarity on the vulgar circumstances regarding the Congo. In contrast, rather than projecting historical occurrences, he managed to write in pros to display creativity towards a theoretical situation to force the reader to broaden their perspectives of colonization. Subsequent to evaluating the extract from The Heart of Darkness, it became evident to me that the perceptions this novel…