Synopsis
As a dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, essayist and public speaker, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga has claimed the attention of African Cultural Studies since the first publication of her novel Nervous Conditions, in 1989. As a text that raises crucial questions of how identities are formed in the crucible of African nations in search of independence, Nervous Conditions broaches several of the topics that have come to occupy the forefront of Postcolonial Studies such as colonial education, traditional versus modern or Western modes of living, gender relations, and the role of writing itself.