Essays on Nervous Conditions

Gender Expectations of Women The gender expectations of the Shona culture represented in Nervous Conditions create gender inequalities for Tambu, Nyasha and Miaguru. Shona women are expected to be “servants” and accommodate the men. These expectations signify the limited opportunities and choices that Shona women…

Dangarembga’s novel “Nervous Conditions” subscribes to the common tropes of the “coming of age” story in her book that takes place in Rhodesia. This book also challenges the ideas of the normality of patriarchal tendencies. Simon Hay and Elizabeth Jackson both cover these tendencies both…

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Postcolonialism and the Politics of Representation When considering what I want to explore with secondary research, the reading that comes to mind is Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. There is, with this reading, no singular question that intrigues me more than others….