‘My Quest for Recognition’: Existentialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not

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Notes

1 The full sentence in Constance Farrington’s 1963 translation of the preface reads: ‘The status of “native” is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent’ (20, italics in the original).

2 Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 Jane Eyre (2000) famously exposed the material and affective cruelty of nineteenth century religious ‘charity’ schools.

3 Relatedly Sartre’s own existential humanism, ‘insist[s] that the freedom of the individual is dependent upon the freedom of all,’ a logic which also implies that the unfreedom of one means the unfreedom of everyone (Judaken 2008, 34).