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by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions is a partly autobiographical novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga. It focuses on the themes of race, class, and sex, all of which work against the protagonist, Tambu. The title references Jean Paul Sartre's introduction to Frantz Fanon's 1963 book The Wretched of the…

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what shows that tambus family is not well off
Posted by tafadzwa masawi t #320493
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on May 06, 2013 11:08 AM
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Is the theme of the book related to the book itself?
Posted by alex ngcobo n #320069
Last updated by: Aslan on May 04, 2013 8:03 AM
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what was nhamo's attitude to his sister
Posted by vuyo v #319729
Last updated by: Aslan on May 02, 2013 12:27 PM
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In Nervous Conditions Tsitsi demostrated that within the patriachal, colonials, context, werten education is a double-edged sword servinh both to liberate and elinate the individual of the community. Discuss.
Posted by evodia t #283529
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 27, 2013 12:02 AM
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In Nervous Conditions Tsitsi demostrated that within the patriachal, colonials, context, werstern education is a double-edged sword serving both to liberate and elinate the individual of the community. Discuss.
Posted by evodia t #283529
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 25, 2013 3:43 PM
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why is tambu and lucia described as the 'escaped'?
Posted by pearl t #317883
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 25, 2013 2:43 PM
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describe how education is viewed by the shona people of Tambu's homestead
Posted by makamole m #317547
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Apr 24, 2013 5:06 PM
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show how place and travel play a pivotal rolein female emancipation
Posted by donn g #308025
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Mar 13, 2013 8:38 AM
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show how place and travel play a pivotal rolein female emancipation
Posted by donn g #308025
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Mar 13, 2013 8:17 AM
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What proof is there that a woman's burden is heavy in Chapter 7?
Posted by nassir r #302479
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Feb 17, 2013 8:04 PM
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What are Tambu's strengths? How are her strengths also her weaknesses? Support your answer with close reference to the text.
Posted by princess m #297057
Last updated by: lucas s #302425 on Feb 17, 2013 2:54 PM
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In Nevoors Conditions,Tsitsi demontrate that the theme,patriorchal colonial context,Western education-double edged sword serving both to liberate and elianate the individual from the rest of the community. Discuss the statement.
Posted by neo r #284369
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Nov 19, 2012 6:37 AM
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The meaning of the western education serving both to liberate and alienate
Posted by tsepang m #283855
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Nov 16, 2012 3:04 PM
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how does babamukuru's return impact the family and tambu
Posted by kudzai g #275051
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Oct 14, 2012 9:24 PM
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'' i told nayasha what maigugr had said....''descise the clossness between nayasha and tambu
Posted by sumeet m #262833
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Aug 19, 2012 8:18 AM
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Why did Lucia, who seemed so self-centered throughout the book, spend time and patience caring for her sister when she was ill?
Posted by barbie b #261617
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Aug 12, 2012 7:31 PM
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In "Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dangarembga, what is the process of assimilation Nyasha described?
Posted by barbie b #261617
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Aug 10, 2012 8:30 PM
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why does Tambu feel guilty about disliking her brother
Posted by raniy a #242973
Last updated by: barbie b #261617 on Aug 10, 2012 8:17 PM
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What does Lucia do when she interrupts the Sigauke patriarchy’s dare? The case being discussed is initially identified by Babamukuru as Takesure’s, but Lucia and Jeremiah are drawn into the matter as parts of the family problem to be solved. What vari
Posted by hola m #257737
Last updated by: hola m #257737 on Jul 03, 2012 6:23 PM
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What does Lucia do when she interrupts the Sigauke patriarchy’s dare? The case being discussed is initially identified by Babamukuru as Takesure’s, but Lucia and Jeremiah are drawn into the matter as parts of the family problem to be solved. What vari
Posted by hola m #257737
Last updated by: hola m #257737 on Jul 03, 2012 6:23 PM
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the tragedy of nervous conditions is that education reaps a series of problems in the individual's psyche an in relationships. discuss
Posted by malisia e #108055
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 12, 2012 4:39 PM
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can someone write me a novel on nervous conditions about the whole chapters of 1 and 2
Posted by ryan s #200987
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Apr 12, 2012 1:43 PM
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Realism as opposed to idealism in the novel
Posted by valerie d #231279
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Feb 19, 2012 8:00 AM
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why was tambu not sorry for her brother's death?
Posted by mbuso s #197621
Last updated by: swelihle kim k #213109 on Nov 14, 2011 11:06 AM
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