Chinongwa / Lucy Mushita.
Publisher: Little River, Vic : Spinifex Press, ©2023Copyright date: ©2022Description: ix, 199 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925950816
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Fiction
- Spouses -- Fiction
- Young women -- Zimbabwe -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- Women -- Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Arranged marriage
- Self-realization in women
- Women -- Social conditions
- Zimbabwe -- Fiction
- Zimbabwe -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Zimbabwe -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Zimbabwe
- 823.4 23/eng/20230801
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 823.4 MUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90783 |
In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. At first, to their shame, her father's and aunt's attempts to marry off their youngest child fail. No one is interested in this small, thin girl. Eventually, a childless woman, Amai Chitsva, offers Chinongwa as a second wife to her own husband who is old enough to be the girl's grandfather. Chinongwa is forced to grow up very fast and rely on her survival instincts. She does her best to do what is expected of her and become a good wife and mother, but being very young, very alone, and a girl, the odds are stacked against her. Eventually, after spending her whole life doing the bidding of others, all Chinongwa wants is her independence. But how can one gain such a thing as a woman? Will she ever truly be free?
Published in conjunction with Weaver Press, Zimbabwe and Modjaji Books, South Africa. Published by both these independent publishers in 2022.
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