A Question of Power

Your mother was insane If you re not careful you ll get insane just like your mother Your mother was a white woman They had to lock her up, as she was having a child by the stable boy who was a native It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission school principal s cruel revelation of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown She has left South Africa with her son and is living in the village of Motabeng, the place of sand, in Botswana where there are no street lights at night In the darkness of this country where people turn and look at her with vague curiosity as an outsider she establishes an entirely abnormal relationship with two men A mind bending book which takes the reader in and out of sanity. Best Read [ A Question of Power ] by [ Bessie Head ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is Bessie Head She died at the tragically young age of 48 just as she was starting to receive the recognition she deserved as a writer Much of her work is still in print, though it remains under read outside of the Academy or so I have been informed by a good friend who teaches in this area .You must be very careful Your mother was insane If you re not careful you ll get insane just like your mother Your mother was a white woman They had to lock her up, as she was having a This is Bessie Head She died at the tragically young age of 48 just as...It was a life with its own slow, weaving, gentle pattern Think you know her She is a mother who fears motherhood, or what she could do to her child, so she refers to her son as the small boy Still, her fear is not unfounded, so you think you know her, this school worker and allWe are doubtful of your sanity, and request that you submit to us a certificate of sanity from the medical officer within fourteen days of receipt of this noticeShe s an enigma, this woman who lives in death,It was a life with its own slow, weaving, gentle pattern Think you know her She is a mother who fears motherhood, or what she could do to her child, so she refers to her son as the small boy Still, her fear is not unfounded, so you think you know her, this school worker and allWe are doubtful of your sanity, and request that you submit to us a certificate of sanity from the medical officer within fourteen days of receipt of this noticeShe s an enigma, this woma...This book is about Elizabeth, a South African mother who has migrated to small town of Motabeng in Botswana Her uprooting makes her mentally unstable and the harsh surroundings perpetuated her illness She loses the love of her domineering husband, gets entangled with a handsome lover and makes her view the world like everything is falling into pieces until the rescue comes in the end.What makes this book worth reading is the scary way Head captures the mind of a woman who, in her isolation, This book is about Elizabeth, a South African mother who has migrated to small town of Motabeng in Botswana Her uprooting makes her mentally unstable and the harsh surroundings perpetuated her illness She loses the love of her domineering husband, gets entangled with a handsome lover and makes her view the world like everything is falling into pieces until the rescue comes in the end.What makes this book worth reading is the scary way Head captures the mind of a woman who, in her isolation, plays the claustrophobic world in her mind There are many scenes in the narration that do not actually happen Sometimes, it is hard to tell which ones belong to the reality, which ones do not The beautiful narration was mesmerizing and there were times that I thoug...This one is about a woman who has a mental illness At the current moment she has moved from her home country which was in Africa to another in Africa, and is struggling to adapt to the displacement and the different way of living What I really liked about this book is that it really shows how even when you are moving within the same continent, and within cultures where some things may be done the way you would at home, there can be startling differences which still make it very hard to This one is about a woman who has a mental illness At the current moment she has moved from her home country which was in Africa to another in Africa, and is struggling to adapt to the displacement and the different way of living What I really liked about this book is that it really shows how even when you are moving within the same continent, and within cultures where some things may be done the way you would at home, there can be startling differences which still make it ...Stunning and hypnotic You really feel like you are riding on the crazy train with her.This book is difficult to follow but I liked it much it disorients you with its narrative style and then fills you with images and emotions that linger and drift away like a dream you can t let go.This is a very disturbing book The narrator is suffering from mental illness, and her narration, obviously, conflates reality with her hallucinations not sure that is the proper medical term I found quite a bit of the symbolism of her dreams delusions hard to sort out However, the narrator, Elizabeth, is a mixed race woman from South Africa who has moved to a village in Botswana She feels alienated and alone due to her racial and ethnic differences from the local people, many of ...The language used to describe the protagonist s bouts of insanity blows the mind I re read passages every now and then just to get a fix.This book was a challenge owing to its subject matter of mental illness in the context of a post colonial setting in Botswana, and also in the context of racial identity and issues of belonging Though Head wroteor less a straight narrative, she weaved from the every normal existence of the main character to her bouts of intense nightmares that lasted for about one and half years including a whole year of sleeplessness and trips to the mental hospital Once I was able to discern the This book was a challenge owing to its subject matter of mental illness in the context of a post colonial setting in Botswana, and also in the context of racial identity and issues of belonging Though Head wroteor less a straight narrative, she weaved from the every normal existence of the main character to her bouts of intense nightmares that lasted for about one and half years including a whole year of sleeplessness and trips to the mental hospital Once I was able to discern the pattern, the book becamesensible to me The nightmares have meaning, which Head resolves at the end of the text While Head walked us through the main character s ordeal, it was difficult to grasp the greater and larger meaning of those nightmares Were ...Bessie Head as usual did not disappoint I m an avid fan of her work and I enjoyed A Question of Power thoroughly It is one of those books you have to chew on bite by bite lest you miss out on the good parts I like how Bessie tackles heavy topics such as racism, poverty, inequality, religion and sex She uses her style of writing to discuss fundamental issues that are serious underlying societal issues in a very creative and narrative way Through her characters she is able to ...

• English
• 08 October 2018
Bessie Head
• Paperback
• 206 pages
• 0435907204
• Bessie Head
• A Question of Power