Abstract
This chapter focuses on Botswanan writer Bessie Head, and sub-Saharan Africa and narratives of voluntary cooperative labor and food production in the age of development. It examines A Question of Power, Head's best-known but also most challenging work, which constantly switches registers between ghost story, self-help talk therapy, and philosophical meditation on the ontology and subjectivity of everyday work. Head's critics focus exclusively on the surreal narratives of interiority and the symbolism of the unconscious as the key to understanding her paradoxical notions of universality and humanism. The chapter, however, delves into the narratives of agricultural projects that constantly interrupt the primary story line; arguing that these “outside” narratives supply the content for Head's critique of identity politics.
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