Text and Community Events
Workshops
Wednesday, December 10th
2:00 to 4:00 pm
Johnson Center 3rd floor, Meeting Room F
Teaching Workshop
Helon Habila, Lisa Lister, and Mark Sample will present on teaching Nervous Conditions and teaching recent African fiction more generally. The workshop will also include full group and small group discussions and is open to all interested teaching faculty who are interested in teaching Nervous Conditions in the Spring.
Light refreshments will be provided. TAs who attend this workshop will receive a stipend of $50; adjuncts who attend will receive a stipend of $75.
RSVP: eandersd@gmu.edu
Lectures
Wednesday April 29
5:55-7:10 pm
Center for the Arts, Lobby
Tsitsi Dangarembga will talk about her work.
Dangarembga, a novelist and playwright, was born in Mutoko, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She was educated at Cambridge where she studied medicine and psychology. After becoming a successful writer, she entered the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Academie in Berlin. Nervous Conditions, the first book published in English by a black Zimbabwean woman, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Neria, published in 1992, was made into a film and became the highest grossing film in Zimbabwean history.
Film Festival
Text and Community
Zimbabwean Film Series
Eisenhower Media Room in President's Park
The film festival includes pieces by Tstsi Dangarembga as well as other contemporary Zimbabwean filmmakers. There will be opportunity for discussion after the films.
Wednesday, March 25
4:00 - 5:30 pm "Everyone's Child"
Directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga, this documentary focuses on the experiences of two children orphaned
by the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe.
Tuesday, March 31
7:00 - 9:00 pm "The Hard Earth" and "Kare Kare Zvako"
"The Hard Earth" is a documentary produced by Dangarembga that focuses on land rights and
appropriation in Zimbabwe. "Kare Kare Zvako" (screenplay and direction by Dangarembga) is a
musical depicting the hardships of women under Zimbabwean patriarchy.
Thursday April 9
7:00 - 9:00 pm: "Neria"
Dangarembga wrote the screenplay for this tale of a widowed woman who seeks help from a female
friend when her brother-in-law abuses traditional customs to try to control her assets for his own benefit.
Tuesday April 14
7:00 - 9:00 pm "House of Hunger"
Based on the short story collection by the late Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechara.
Thursday April 23
7:00 - 9:00 pm "Flame"
Fictional rendering of the liberation movement against Rhodesia based on accounts by women who
joined the armed struggle. Directed by Ingrid Sinclair.
