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Article: Purging a plate full of colonial history: The 'Nervous Conditions' of silent girls. (Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel) (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
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- College Literature
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- February 1, 1995
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Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga is currently writing the sequel to her first novel, Nervous Conditions (1988).(1) Indeed, the conclusion seems to invite a sequel:
It was a process whose events stretched over many years and would fill another volume, but the story I have told here, is my own story, the story of four women whom I loved, and our men, this story is how it all began. (204)
Dangarembga's narrator, Tambu Sigauke, describes the events that lead up to the conclusion of her story as a seed she buries in her mind. "But seeds do grow," Tambu tells her reader (203). By the end of the story, she has begun the "long and painful process" out of which ...