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Paper #109255 :: TsiTsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions"
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This paper is a review of TsiTsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", set in colonial Rhodesia and published in Zimbabwe in 1988.

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Set in 1969 colonial Rhodesia and published in Zimbabwe in 1988, TsiTsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions" is regarded as a postcolonial text as it is written "after the empire" and deals with the legacies of colonialism. This paper attempts to isolate colonial traumas in the text by examining colonial education and demonstrating its role in the inception of "Nervous Conditions". Secondly, the author demonstrates how the requirement of intensification of "colonial rivalries" in the maintenance of "Nervous Conditions" is markedly important in the text: the traumas of the narrator Tambu and her female family members are a result of the coalition between patriarchal structures and colonial projects. The coalition is explored through examining the resultant convolution of power structures, the "unbearable contradiction" it thrusts on the female characters and the ways they use it to resist patriarchy.
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"It has been observed that the colonial institution of education works to strip the Shona culture and language of the characters in the text, as well as "trapping" them in "unbearable contradictions," which characterise Nervous Conditions. The trauma depicted in the text, however, is not reflected in this study of colonial education alone. By examining the coalition of patriarchal structures and colonial projects, we are able to see the convolution of power structures that the women "borderline," as well as the "unbearable contradiction" this allegiance produces for the female characters. It has also been shown that the powers of the patriarchal structures in the text are not equal to the colonial structures they ally with; and the female characters of Nervous Conditions use this in their resistance. This form of resistance, however, is far from representing the women's resistance in the text: it is Lucia, Tambu's "illiterate aunt," who has a power that "owes nothing to the benefits of Westernisation," and who grabs "the patriarchal authority that by the ears"."

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