Black and Female

This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga’s complex relationship with race and gender. At once philosophical, intimate and urgent, Dangarembga’s landmark essays address the profound cultural and political questions that underpin her novels for the first time. Black and Female offers a powerful vision toward re-membering – to use Toni Morrison’s word – those whose identities and experiences continue to be fractured by the intersections of history, race and gender.

About the author

Tsitsi Dangarembga is the Director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust, and the author of three novels: Nervous Conditions, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; This Mournable Body, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and The Book of Not. She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Dangarembga is also a filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Publication details

Hardback | ISBN- 978-0571373192 | Publisher: ‎ Faber & Faber / Graywolf Press | August 2022 | Kindle | ISBN- 978-1644452110 | eBook ISBN – 9780571373208

Reviews

‘Urgent, compelling, blisteringly brilliant. This timely and elegant collection should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the aftermath of Empire – and that should be all of us. Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most poweful writers working today.’ – Sara Collins

‘In these moving and necessary essays, Tsitsi Dangarembga insists that ’the best writing opens the lesion again and again and cleanses’. She is exactly as good as her word.’ -Andrew Motion