TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dangarembga,Tsitsi
TI  - This mournable body
SN  - 9780571355518
AV  - PR9390.9.D36 T48 2020
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  - Biology teachers
KW  - fast
KW  - Boardinghouses
KW  - Choice (Psychology)
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Humiliation
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Women
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - Harare
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Harare (Zimbabwe)
KW  - nli
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018
N2  - "Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be."--Amazon.com
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