It is difficult to interrogate Head's work fruitfully, unless questions are addressed to whether she approaches her imaginative writing as an Africanist, a feminist or just as a woman. This article utilizes an analysis of Head's novels not attempted so far. For this reason, she is one of the black South African writers who should consciously be given prominence today. The result of her prior exclusion has been the double marginalization of Head's literary contribution, as one of the overlooked black South African writers of the 1950s and the lack of critical acclaim of her as an individual author. As critics such as Huma Ibrahim have indicated it was only after her death in 1986 that she was included in discussions on the Drum generation. E-mail: Head was one of the Drum writers of the 1950s. E-mail: with the University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa. IAssociate Professor in the Departement of English Studies, University of South Africa. Instances of Bessie Head's distinctive feminism, womanism and Africanness in her novels
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