Tsitsi Dangarembga

In five short essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote "postcolonial". Weaving together the experiences, events, intersections, and negotiations of her multifaceted identity, Dangarembga offers a powerful vision of Black liberation.

Black and Female

Marion

Healing is weaving, a knitting together and reintegration of the parts that were mangled and crippled. Weaving of words - and through this process, reweaving time, action and reaction into a new whole - makes writing back against empire a site of potential for healing. Some writing raises a scar, puffy, often suppurating, over the damage.

The best writing opens the lesion again and again and cleanses.

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