SOURCE: Newson, Adele S. Review of The Cardinals, with Meditations and Short Stories, by Bessie Head. World Literature Today 68, no. 4 (autumn 1994): 869–70.
In the following positive review of The Cardinals, with Meditations and Short Stories, Newson asserts that “Head provides something of a poetic rendering of what it means to be a woman and a writer in the male-dominated, racist, and sexist South Africa of her formative years as a writer.”
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