SOURCE: Thorpe, Michael. “Treasures of the Heart: The Short Stories of Bessie Head.” World Literature Today 57, no. 3 (summer 1983): 414–16.
In the following essay, Thorpe surveys the defining characteristics of Head's The Collector of Treasures, describing the stories as “rooted, folkloristic tales woven from the fabric of village life and intended to entertain and enlighten, not to engage the modern close critic.”
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