Essays on Nervous Conditions
The event of Jeremiah and Mainin’s wedding had several impacts. It affected certain characters more than others and definitely had many consequences. Tambu being the daughter of Jeremiah and Maini suffered immensely with the whole concept. She struggled within herself, trying to reason around the feelings she manifested at that time. The circumstances surrounding this...
“Everyone wants a strong woman until she actually stands up, flexes her muscles, projects her voice. Suddenly, she’s too much. She’s forgotten her place…” Throughout the novel, Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga, gender inequality is a large theme. Dangarembga depicts the complex and difficult trials that the women in Rhodesia had to face back in...
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions demonstrates how destructive elements against womanhood are perpetuated by both the colonial and traditionalist (i.e. African) systems in Zimbabwe; and thus, anti-female sentiments are inherently societal biases and beliefs. Essentially, sexism is neither a colonial or traditional construct, and that gender-inequality represents the bridge between the two (conflicting) ideals. Therefore, by...