Biographies

Abrahams, Cecil, ed. Tragic Life: Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1990, 131 p.

Collection of essays that explore Head's personal life, politics, and spirituality.

Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head: Thunder behind Her Ears: Her Life and Writing. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995, 312 p.

Covers Head's life and development as a writer, with information on her travels abroad.

Criticism

Bazin, Nancy Topping. "Venturing into Feminist Consciousness: Two Protagonists from the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta and Bessie Head." SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 2, no. 1 (spring 1985): 32-36.

Analyzes budding African feminist concerns in novels by Buchi Emecheta and Head.

Flockemann, Miki. "Breakdown and Breakthrough? The Madness of Resistance in Wide Sargasso Sea and A Question of Power." MaComère 2 (1999): 65-79.

Explores the relation of living in exile to the search for identity and, ultimately, to madness in Wide Sargasso Sea and...