Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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... mask her serious political message was to choose an elusive style . Using rain and water as symbols of life , Zirimu exposes the regime's wanton destruction of life . Yet she does not present characters who despair about their situation ...
... mask her serious political message was to choose an elusive style . Using rain and water as symbols of life , Zirimu exposes the regime's wanton destruction of life . Yet she does not present characters who despair about their situation ...
Page 282
... mask of Ngue in a rubbish heap also becomes a symbol of group consciousness through which social renewal is possible . It is significant that the crowd puts the mask on the head of the only child , sym- bolically bequeathing to the ...
... mask of Ngue in a rubbish heap also becomes a symbol of group consciousness through which social renewal is possible . It is significant that the crowd puts the mask on the head of the only child , sym- bolically bequeathing to the ...
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... Mask . Ndinga , perched on a tree trunk , is playing the tambourine with despair ... " ( 66 ) . The physical condition of the community is replicated in the people's material and spiritual conditions , captured by Ndinga , the oral ...
... Mask . Ndinga , perched on a tree trunk , is playing the tambourine with despair ... " ( 66 ) . The physical condition of the community is replicated in the people's material and spiritual conditions , captured by Ndinga , the oral ...
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