Category: Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembgas Nervous Conditions is a semi-autobiographical account on the story of Tambus experiences growing up as a woman in Rhodesia, in modern day Zimbabwe. The story begins after her brothers death, expressing her lack of grieving over it. Her parents had sent her brother to school but did not have enough money to send…

Published in 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembgas novel, Nervous Conditions, was the first novel published by a black Zimbabwean woman- not because African women were not writing novels, but because of the difficulties African women faced when attempting to publish works of literature. Due to the issue that African women were not previously given a voice in…

This essay gives a brief summary of the novel The Book of Not and how the black Africans were treated badly at the hands of the whites by applying the Critical Race Theory. Tsitsi Dangarembgas novel The Book of Not was published eighteen years after Nervous Conditions. It is a sequel to the story Nervous…

A film writer and an award winning author Tsitsi Dangarmbga was born in Zimbabwe. Her novels confess a deep message about societal issues concerning much on the racial and gender discrimination witnessed by the black people of Rhodesia before and after independence. Her novels exhibit a clear portrayal of the sufferings of the blacks under…