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Psychological Reconciliation With Reality: Bessie Head’s A Question Of Power
Dr. N. Lakshmi
Volume: 15 Issue: 4 2025
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The history of writing by women in South Africa has been filled with struggle, invention and rebellion against many factors. Racial and gender oppression across South Africa has interweaved class and economic differences too where black and coloured women suffer the most as a marginal group both by traditional power structures of British imperialism and Afrikaner nationalism. Women writers write of survival through conflicts, oppression, victimization, and differentiation meted out by both the prevalent social and political conditions in South Africa. Bessie Head brings forth a wide range of female characterization from victims to agents of change in her novel A Question of Power. This paper examines madness of Elizabeth as a metaphor to bring in realization and reconciliation of Elizabeth with Nature and mankind to evolve from a victim to that of an independent, self-reliant individual.
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