Tsitsi Dangarembga ( Eng. Tsitsi Dangarembga , 1959 , Mutoko, East Mashonaland , then Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe ) - writer and film director Zimbabwe.
Content
Biography
In two years, she moved with her parents to the UK, where she grew up, almost forgetting her native language, Sean . She began to study there, but in 1965 she continued her studies at the missionary school in Mutara . Then, again in the UK, from 1977 she studied as a doctor in Cambridge , but after gaining independence, Zimbabwe in 1980 returned to her homeland. She studied psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, worked in a marketing firm. Started writing plays. In 1985, published the first story, in 1987 - the play. Her debut novel ( 1988 ) was well received by the public and criticism. However, she did not exploit the success, but entered the German Film Academy in Berlin , then founded a production company in Harare , produced several documentaries, and in 1996 she showed an independent play tape, acting as the first Zimbabwean woman to make a feature film.
She graduated from postgraduate studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is working on his doctoral thesis on the perception of African cinema.
Creativity
Literature
- The Letter , 1985 (short story)
- She no longer cries / She No Longer Weeps , 1987 (play)
- Restless Circumstances / Nervous Conditions , 1988 (reprinted in the USA in 1989 , autobiographical novel, Literary Prize of the British Commonwealth; in 2002 was named an authoritative pan-African jury among the best 12 books of Africa of the 20th century ; reprint of Ayebia Clarke, 2004 )
- The Book of Not: A Sequel to Nervous Conditions , Ayebia Clarke, 2006 (continued)
Cinema
- The Puppeter, 1996
- Child of any of us / Everyone's Child, 1996
- The Elephant People, 2000
- On the Border, 2000
- High Hopes, 2004
- Mother's Day / Kare Kare Zvako , 2004
- On the water / Pamvura ( 2005 )
- Tell me my name / Peretera Maneta ( 2006 )
- Ungochani ( 2010 )
- Nyami Nyami and the seeds of evil / Nyaminyami amaji abulozi ( 2011 )
Literature
- Negotiating the Postcolonial emerging perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga / Ann Elizabeth Willey and Jeanette Treiber, eds. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2002
- Collins WP Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsroman. Lanham: UP of America, 2006
- Green LM Literary identification in women's novels of formation from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2012