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Mema door Daniel Mengara
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Mema (origineel 2003; editie 2003)

door Daniel Mengara (Auteur)

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Mema's sharp tongue and apparent barrenness makes her a target for dislike and disapproval in her village. When she finally succeeds in having four children, her husband dies in a witchdoctor's haven, followed by her daughters. Her in-laws accuse her of being a wicked witch who sacrificed her husband and children to the dark forces. In spite of this Mema's strength and courage cause her to fight for her sons and her family's rights. In this story of a practical African society her actions owe nothing to Western feminism and the theme of struggle against colonialism is left behind in favour of a struggle between new and old values. The author demonstrates that a story relating the impact of psychological and social forces on Africans can also focus mainly on conflicts within African society.… (meer)
Lid:amanda4242
Titel:Mema
Auteurs:Daniel Mengara (Auteur)
Info:London : Heinemann, 2003.
Verzamelingen:Read, Gelezen, maar niet in bezit
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Superficially, Mema is a story of a boy's relationship with his mother, from whom he is removed by relatives following the death of his father and two sisters. However, it's also the story of the colonial experience of being taken away from mother, home, and community; brought up as a lower status person and educated in a new environment far away; adapting and thriving; returning home and, in this case, being sent away again. (In some colonial narratives, the protagonist returns only to discover that he cannot reintegrate and that his education does not help, but just makes him alien.) As this narrator is in fact sent away again by his mother to learn the white man's ways, the analogy of the colonial experience is collapsed into the literal experience of a young boy thrust into the incomprehensible world, adjured to remember his mother and origins. To be protected from malevolent spirits, he must be separated from his community, and, though understated, this is rendered poignantly. Mengara draws village life more deftly and in greater richness than town/city life, which may reflect the emotions associated with each. ( )
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Mema's sharp tongue and apparent barrenness makes her a target for dislike and disapproval in her village. When she finally succeeds in having four children, her husband dies in a witchdoctor's haven, followed by her daughters. Her in-laws accuse her of being a wicked witch who sacrificed her husband and children to the dark forces. In spite of this Mema's strength and courage cause her to fight for her sons and her family's rights. In this story of a practical African society her actions owe nothing to Western feminism and the theme of struggle against colonialism is left behind in favour of a struggle between new and old values. The author demonstrates that a story relating the impact of psychological and social forces on Africans can also focus mainly on conflicts within African society.

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