Black and Female

Resumen del libro

Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.

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, Dangarmebga's landmark essays address the profound cultural and political questions that underpin her novels for the first time. From her experience of life with a foster family in Dover and the difficulty of finding a publisher as a young Zimbabwean novelist, to the ways in which colonialism continues to disrupt the lives and minds of those subjugated by empire, Dangarembga writes to recenter marginalised voices.

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.

Biografía del autor

Artista gallega afincada en Cambridge. En 2015 obtuvo el título de Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Salamanca y recibió el Premio Extraordinario de Grado. Entre 2015 y 2017 se especializó en ilustración infantil gracias al máster Children's Book Illustration, en Cambridge (Reino Unido), donde estudió con una Beca para estudios artísticos de la Diputación de La Coruña. En 2017, gana el premio Student illustrator of the year, otorgado por el Museo Victoria x{0026} Albert de Londres, y comienza a trabajar en el campo editorial. En 2019 empieza un doctorado en la Cambridge School of Art, centrado en los libros informativos y de divulgación para el público infantil.