Bessie Head Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is trying to modernise farming methods to benefit the community. The two outsiders join forces, but their task is fraught with hazards: opposition from the corrupt chief, the pressures of tradition, and the unrelenting climate ever threaten to bring tragedy. Maru: Margaret, an orphan from a despised tribe, has lived her life under the loving protection of a missionary's wife. She has only to open her mouth to cause confusion, for her education and English accent do not fit her looks. When she accepts her first teaching post, in a remote village, Margaret is befriended by Dikeledi, sister of Maru the chief-in-waiting. Despite making influential friends, Margaret faces prejudice even from the children she teaches, and her presence causes Maru and his best friend - also Dikeledi's lover - to become sworn enemies.

Oog in oog met vrouwen is een bloemlezing uit het prachtige werk van schrijfsters uit Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika en het Caribisch gebied. De fragmenten uit proza en poëzie, die zijn samengebracht onder noemers als Leven en Liefde, Werk en spel en Politiek en maatschappij , worden visueel vertaald en verlevendigd door meer dan veertig kleurenfoto's. Daarmee is dit boek een genoegen om te lezen en tegelijk een lust voor het oog.

Two exiles--one white, one black--in a poor village in Botswana struggle with tradition, climate, and the local chief as they try to modernize the villagers' farming methods.

Regarded today as one of Africa's best-known female writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling's language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, this collection of stories gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status and position and plight of women.

Margaret, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts. In the love story and intrigue that follows, the book combines a portrait of loneliness with an affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life.

Belletristik : Südafrika (Republik) ; Erzählungen.

It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal's cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in and out of sanity.