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"Bessie Head's short stories have an extraordinary simplicity and breadth of vision," heralded a review in The Tribune after publication of Head's first collection of short stories, The Collector of Treasures. Regarded today as one of Africa's best-known woman writers in English, Head draws on the rich oral tradition of southern Africa and masterfully applies storytelling's language and imagery. Carefully sequenced, the anthology gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status, position, and plight of African women.
Table of Contents: 1. The Deep River: A Story of Ancient Tribal Migration 2. Heaven Is Not Closed 3. The Village Saint 4. Jacob: The Story of a Faith-Health Priest 5. Life 6. Witchcraft 7. Looking for a Rain God 8. Kgotla 9. The Wind and a Boy 10. Snapshots of a Wedding 11. The Special One 12. The Collector of Treasures 13. Hunting
Other titles by Bessie Head available from Waveland Press: Maru (ISBN 9781478607618); A Question of Power (ISBN 9781478634690); and When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595).
Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press:
Amadi, The Concubine (ISBN 9781478634607)
Andreas, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (ISBN 9781478634584)
Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060)
Campbell, My Children Have Faces (ISBN 13 9781478635017)
Kubuitsile, The Scattering (ISBN 9781478634591)
La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251)
Marechera, The House of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730)
Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151)
Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011)
p'Bitek, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723)
Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575)
Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)
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