By the time of her death at the age of forty-eight in Serowe, a village in Botswana, Bessie Head had gained recognition as a writer of extraordinary power and insight. In her concern with women and madness in A Question of Power (1973), Charles Larson...

When Bessie Head died in 1986 at the age of forty-nine, she left a legacy of diverse writings including three novels, a volume of short stories, an oral history, a reconstructed history of nineteenth-century southern Africa, and three volumes of...

When Bessie Head died in 1986 at the age of forty-nine, she left a legacy of diverse writings including three novels, a volume of short stories, an oral history, a reconstructed history of nineteenth-century southern Africa, and two volumes of...

Head is known for her writings exploring the sources of racial and sexual inequalities in southern Africa. A mixed-race South African who spent most of her life as an exile in her adopted land of Botswana, Head wrote from the perspective of an outsider...

Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986) is usually considered Botswana's most important writer. She was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in...

Maxine Sample, ed. Critical Essays on Bessie Head. Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 205. xii + 150 pp. Index. $61.00. Cloth. Critically hailed as one of the brightest voices in African literature at the time...

TALES OF TENDERNESS AND POWER By Bessie Head Heinemann. 144 pp. $7.95 paperback A WOMAN ALONE Autobiographical Writings By Bessie Head Heinemann. 107 pp. $7.95 paperback BESSIE HEAD'S achievement at the time of her death in 1986...

In the following essay, Chetin considers Head's concept of exile, feminist perspective, and use of myth in The Collector of Treasures.

In the following essay, Eilersen provides a biographical account of Head's life at the time of The Collector of Treasures.

In the following essay, Gagiano offers a stylistic and thematic analysis of The Cardinals.