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Nevrosi (Mangrovie Vol. 2)
Tambudzai è una ragazzina che sogna di ricevere un'educazione che le permetta di emanciparsi dalle limitazioni della sua vita in un villaggio rurale della Rhodesia, l'attuale Zimbabwe. L'occasione le si presenta quando il fratello Nhamo, unico figlio maschio della famiglia, muore improvvisamente. Lo zio Babamukuru, preside di una missione cristiana, le permette allora di studiare al posto del fratello, aprendole così le porte a una vita più agiata. Sulle spalle di Tambu gravano le aspettative e il futuro dell'intera famiglia, ma lei accetta volentieri il fardello inseguendo il sogno di un'educazione superiore. Tuttavia, alla missione, grazie anche alla convivenza con la cugina Nyasha, educata in Inghilterra e più consapevole delle problematiche legate alla colonizzazione e al patriarcato, comincia a dubitare che l'emancipazione tanto desiderata possa essere realmente raggiunta e che le opportunità ricevute siano motivate da pura generosità. Scritto con una lingua allo stesso tempo evocativa e dura, "Nevrosi" di Tsitsi Dangarembga è un romanzo potente che esplora la sottomissione in diverse forme – razziale, di genere, di classe – e la nevrosi della condizione postcoloniale.
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Published November 21, 2024
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About the author
Tsitsi Dangarembga
13 books1,062 followersSpent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare. She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, but became homesick and returned home as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980.
She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo.
In 1985, Dangarembga published a short story in Sweden called The Letter. In 1987, she also published the play She Does Not Weep in Harare. At the age of twenty-five, she had her first taste of success with her novel Nervous Conditions. The first in English ever written by a black Zimbabwean woman, it won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989. Asked about her subsequent prose drought, she explained, "There have been two major reasons for my not having worked on prose since Nervous Conditions: firstly, the novel was published only after I had turned to film as a medium; secondly, Virginia Woolf's shrewd observation that a woman needs £500 and a room of her own in order to write is entirely valid. Incidentally, I am moving and hope that, for the first time since Nervous Conditions, I shall have a room of my own. I'll try to ignore the bit about £500."
Dangarembga continued her education later in Berlin at the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie, where she studied film direction and produced several film productions, including a documentary for German television. She also made the film Everyone's Child, shown worldwide including at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
She took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, of whose drama group she was a member. She also held down a two-year job as a copywriter at a marketing agency. This early writing experience gave her an avenue for expression: she wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and then joined the theatre group Zambuko, and participated in the production of two plays, Katshaa and Mavambo.
In 1985, Dangarembga published a short story in Sweden called The Letter. In 1987, she also published the play She Does Not Weep in Harare. At the age of twenty-five, she had her first taste of success with her novel Nervous Conditions. The first in English ever written by a black Zimbabwean woman, it won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989. Asked about her subsequent prose drought, she explained, "There have been two major reasons for my not having worked on prose since Nervous Conditions: firstly, the novel was published only after I had turned to film as a medium; secondly, Virginia Woolf's shrewd observation that a woman needs £500 and a room of her own in order to write is entirely valid. Incidentally, I am moving and hope that, for the first time since Nervous Conditions, I shall have a room of my own. I'll try to ignore the bit about £500."
Dangarembga continued her education later in Berlin at the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie, where she studied film direction and produced several film productions, including a documentary for German television. She also made the film Everyone's Child, shown worldwide including at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
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