Zimbabwe: The Reflection of Women Sympathy in Zimbabwean Novel ‘Nervous Conditions’ (Part One)

Nervous Condition is a novel written by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga in 1988, and it is situated in imagined Rhodesia. Nervous Conditions derives its title from Jean-Paul Sartre’s renowned introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which states that ‘The colonial condition is a nervous condition’. Dangarembga’s female characters (Nyasha, Maiguru, MaShingayi and Tambu) experience nervous conditions brought about by gender discrimination, social class and the cultural…