Colapso da subalterna educada em Condições Nervosas, de Tsitsi Dangarembga

Jhonnata dos Santos Nogueira da Conceição

doi:10.12957/palimpsesto.2025.86989

Authors

Jhonnata dos Santos Nogueira da Conceição Universidade Estadual de Campinas https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7999-2515

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2025.86989

Keywords:

Condições Nervosas, Subalternidade, Educação, Colonialidade, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Abstract

In 2019, Kapulana published the work Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga. In the translator's note, the nature of the title is explained, derived from the preface "The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition," written by Sartre for Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). The book begins the story of Tambudzai, which continues in The Book of Not (2006) and concludes with This Mournable Body (2018). In this article, I focus on analyzing how the formal education of the female characters Tambudzai, Nyasha, and Maiguru may be linked to a conception of the subaltern status of women in Zimbabwe between 1960 and 1970, the period in which the narrative of Nervous Conditions is set.

Keywords/Palabras-clave/Mots-clés: Nervous Conditions; subalternity; Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Jhonnata dos Santos Nogueira da Conceição, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Educator, Professor, and Researcher. Master's candidate in Literary Theory and History in the graduate program at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), admitted in the first semester of 2023. My research interests focus on the analysis of evaluative precepts adopted by literary criticism at different moments in literary historiography, particularly regarding Brazilian women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

I have a particular interest in studies, through a decolonial lens, on political subjectivities and affectivities in educational spaces. In my current research, I am paying special attention to the evaluative precepts of revival and erasure present in Parque Industrial (1933), a work by Mara Lobo, the pseudonym of Patrícia Rehder Galvão (Pagu). I am also interested in participating in research aimed at recovering women writers forgotten by the canon, as well as working with primary sources, such as periodicals, and with fictional prose from the late 19th century.

References

AEGERTER, Lindsay Pentolfe. A dialectic of Autonomy and Community: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1996, pp. 231- 240.

BRUGIONI, Elena. Pós-colonial e decolonial. In: GALLO, Fernanda. Breve dicionário das literaturas africanas. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2022. p. 215-230.

DANGAREMBGA, Tsitsi. Condições Nervosas. Trad. Carolina Kuhn Facchin. São Paulo: Kapulana, 2019.

DANGAREMBGA, Tsitsi. Preta e mulher. Trad. Carolina Kuhn Facchin. São Paulo: Kapulana, 2023.

FALCONI, Jessica. Para além da Nação? Outras ‘decliNações‘das literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Abriu, 2021, p. 9-38.

FANON, Frantz. Pele negra, máscaras brancas. Trad. de Sebastião Nascimento com colaboração de Raquel Camargo. São Paulo: Ubu editora, 2020.

FANON, Frantz. Os condenados da terra. Trad. de Ligia Fonseca Ferreira, Regina Salgado Campos. 1 ed, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2022.

QUINET, Antonio. A psicanálise na era trans. Rio de Janeiro: Stylus, 2017, pp. 13-22.

SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular. Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 475/486, 2005.

SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Pode o subalterno falar? Trad. de Sandra Regina Goulart, Marcos Pereira Feitosa, André Pereira Feitosa. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2010.

WAINAINA, Binyavanga. Como escrever sobre a África. Trad. de Paulo Faria. Granta, 2005.