Path of Thunder
Meeting Bessie Head
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Nazareth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 211-229 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2006.37.4.211 |
| OpenAlex | W2008779752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Bernth Lindfors invited me some years ago to give a presentation about my experience with Bessie Head in the International Writing Program in 1977 on a panel he was planning for the annual meeting of the African Literature Association, but I did not reply. When I next met Bernth, I told him that I had not replied because I was conflicted: I did not want to draw attention to her behavior instead of her fiction because I was mindful of the dictum by D. H. Lawrence to never trust the teller, trust the tale. But the new issue of Wasafiri (Winter 2005) contains an essay by James Currey entitled Publishing Bessie Head, subtitled Memories and Reflections in which he lays out the negative things Bessie wrote and said to her publishers and agents?but he does not say anything about the negative things said about me in a biography of Bessie that he published, Thunder Behind Her Ears by Gillian Stead Eilersen (1995), who got her information from Bessie's letters and did not contact me. I feel that Currey has made it necessary for me to explain what happened when Bessie Head came into the International Writ? ing Program in August 1977. Eilersen says about Bessie in Iowa City (in a chapter entitled Ohio, 1977!)
Computer network · Electrical engineering · Head (geology) · Path (computing) · Thunder · Computer Science · Engineering · Geology · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |