Tag: Nervous Conditions

• Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018

  Happy New Year!! I know this was technically last week’s topic, but shhh! I’m going to do it anyways because I didn’t get a chance to do it yet. I ended up reading way more books than I expected to in 2018, so picking just ten was actually pretty difficult. In the order that I read them, […]

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  January 8, 2019

  Top Ten Tuesday

  2018, A Room of One’s Own, Butterfly Burning, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girl Up, Hillary Clinton, Jurassic Park, Les Miserables, Nervous Conditions, The Lost World, Top Ten Tuesday, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Yvonne Vera

• A Classic Couple: Middlemarch and Nervous Conditions

  A few months ago I discussed Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 1988 novel Nervous Conditions in the context of feminist writing and postcolonial literature. Today, I’ll like to talk about this remarkable novel in a slightly different context: coupled with George Eliot’s classic 1871 novel Middlemarch. Published over a century apart and set against very different backdrops, these two novels are nevertheless tied […]

  holly

  July 18, 2018

  Classic Couple

  Classic Couple, Classics, George Eliot, literature, Middlemarch, Nervous Conditions, Postcolonial literature, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Victorian Literature