The Wound and the Womb: The Politics of Reproduction and Repair in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy

My article places Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy’s representation of the psychological wounds of (post)coloniality in conversation with Frantz Fanon’s work that politicized the psychological dimension of human (social) life. While both Fanon and Dangarembga ascribe a fundamental importance t...

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Published in:	Research in African literatures Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 144 - 168
Main Author:	Mehra, Gayatri
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.09.2025
Subjects:	Ascription Authoritarianism Births Closure Criticism and interpretation Dangarembga, Tsitsi Emotional labor Emotions Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961) Fanon, Frantz (Martiniquais social philosopher) Feminism Globalization Healing Human body Human subjects Mental disorders Mothers Novelists Novels Politicization Politics Portrayals Postcolonialism Psychological aspects Psychological distress Psychological theories Skin Social philosophers Social reproduction Subjectivity Uterus Work Zimbabwean literature Zimbabwe
ISSN:	0034-5210, 1527-2044, 1527-2044
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