
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
“The first novel in English by a Black Zimbabwean woman — a devastating anatomy of how colonial education liberates the mind and colonizes it simultaneously.”
EraPostmodern / Postcolonial
Pages204
Difficulty★★★★☆ Advanced
AP Appearances3
Major Themes
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colonialism
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education
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gender
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identity
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assimilation
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nervous-conditions
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patriarchy
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liberation
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