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A 4 page essay that focuses on how Tsitsi Dangarembga, in her novel, Nervous Conditions, portrays the effect of colonialism on native women. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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condition." The novel relates the life of Tambu, a thirteen-year-old girl whose uncle, who is a teacher, brings her to live with his family so she can attend the mission
school. Examination of the novel, which includes the contrasts between Tambus life while living in her native village and how her life is transformed by living with her uncles family
in the city, reveals the various ways in which colonialism has not only affected Tambu, but her uncle and his family as well. After moving to her uncles home,
she shares a room with Nyasha, his daughter. The things that amaze Tambu underscore the deprivations that characterized her life in her home village. For example, she first imagines that
the familys garage is actually their home. When she passes a packed coat closet, she is awed by the thought that her relatives never have to endure cold or get
wet. Although Tambu speaks only halting English when she first arrives and Nyashas command of Shona is rusty, the two girls become friends and Dangarembga chronicles their struggle to achieve
the academic standards that will enable them to obtain status within the colonial world of Rhodesia in the 1960s. A principal theme that is evident throughout Dangarembgas narrative is
the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and colonialism. This is evident in the Nyashas
anorexia, as she "mutilates her body to prevent brutalization at the hands of colonialism and patriarchy" (Patchay 150). It is through her witnessing of the suffering evident in the women
around her that Tambu is able to question the constraints imposed upon by both colonialism and patriarchy and set down her story, indicating her reassessment concerning the power of both
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