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...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...

... Goodman's title, Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics , has three senses: the pathological motions coursing through disturbed nervous systems; the dislocations and disruptions of migration, rural depopulation, colonial expansion, and the forced transportation...

... helmet and buckets, are from the title of the groundbreaking novel Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga ( 1988 ), a stunning story of the effects of a Western boarding-school education on a rural Zimbabwean school girl. Exposure to texts matters; how they are read has a relation to practice...

... “earthly note from the human.” They ruin our sleep, split our thoughts, and foster our nervous collapse. The world is, after all, in the palm of humanity. Human sounds overwhelm everything else. The harmony of a myriad of natural sounds fails to match...

... by, the formerly debased realm of automatic, nervous functions.” In this, machinelike repetition becomes a kind of human instinct. As Rebecca F. Stern (1998, 443) has argued, Victorian “principles of self-­improvement rely equally upon a repetition that both constitutes and threatens Nature...

... of the nervous system that has both biological and psychological causes. For Krafft-­ Ebing, “antipathic sexuality” references both the desire for an object of the same sex and the presence of a cross-­gender “instinct.” Further, this is “purely a psychic 4. Carpenter’s carving up of femininity...

... of view. Testimonies or transportation are singular, having been experi- enced differently by every survivor and all of these are a critical part of the trag- edy. For Gigliotti, personal accounts destabilize what she calls “factual control” and nothing makes a historian more nervous, she explains (34...

... he had opened the book and offers an address to the reader along with a commentary on it. You recall the scene: holding Kafka's Trial , I read aloud to the students a passage and discovered with a start that I had nothing to say about it. I read it again. Nothing. Getting nervous, I skipped...

... not? Greta Garbo:  Why should you care for a woman like me, I’m always nervous or sick . . . sad . . . or too gay. (Puig [1976b] 2010, 3 – 4) Unwanted and unwarranted sexual violence runs throughout the novel, and yet Puig, beginning with this scene from Garbo’s filmography, frames...

... of Thought and Vision.” Women's Studies 38 : 151 – 82 . Schreber Daniel Paul . (1903) 1988 . Memoirs of My Nervous Illness . Edited and translated by Macalpine Ida Hunter Richard A. , introduction by Weber Samuel . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Citations...

... are repressed in the conventional bildungsroman. 7. Simon Hay ( 2013 : 323) identifies a similar deferral of bildung in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions when he asks: “Why does the novel not actually represent the coming-of-age that it seems to promise us?” Hay's reading of the postcolonial...

... global anglophone fiction. His work has appeared in Contemporary Literature, Film International, and Mississippi Quarterly. Works Cited Anam, Nasia. 2017. The Migrant s Nervous Condition. Post45, January 24. post45 .research.yale.edu/2017/01/the- migrants- nervous- condition/. Berto, Francesco. 2011...

...’: The ‘Process of Womanhood’ in Beka Lamb, Nervous Conditions, and Daughters of the Twilight.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 27 , no. 1 : 37 – 47 . Fraiman Susan . 1993 . “Is There a Female Bildungsroman?” In Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development , 1...

...; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Kehler Grace . 2004 . “The ‘Performance’ of the Prima Donna in Eliot's Closet Drama.” In Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism , edited by Falflak Joel Wright Julia M. , 65 – 92 . Albany...

... the works of Ann Radcliffe.13 Studies providing useful alternatives to this pattern 12. See the arguments that consider sensation fiction as striking “at the roots of Victorian anxieties” (Hughes 1980: 5); as an expression of “evolutionary anxieties” and “collective nervous...

... circuitry (Montgomery 1996). Simplifying explanatory systems commonly used by physicians in presenting information to patients include the pump and pipes for the circulatory system (itself a metaphoric circle); drains and plumbing for the urogenital apparatus; and wires and circuits for the nervous...

... faces in restaurants we used to patronize. Faces glancing at our table of gold-laden drug dealers, guzzling champagne and talking way too loud while Mr. and Mrs. Nervous Normal were out on the town for their monthly steak and salad; "Hold the appetizers, house chablis, please. How much...

... as a pump and blood ves- sels as a hydraulic system with valves; to the nineteenth century, with its notion of the nervous system as telegraphic system for sending messages and recogni- tion that breathing and digestion involve processes akin to the working of the internal combustion engine...

..., Sebastian speaks nervously about "this extravagance of heaven," calling it "Gold so pure / It cannot bear the Stamp, without allay," and asking only that "ye Powers" "let my Love, and Friend, be ever mine" (15:4.3.665-69). In fact, the essential purity of his affection for Dorax and Almeyda...

... and eventual suicide, robs him of his identity and replaces a systematic progres- sion of memories with nightmarish and incomprehensible visions of the past. In Woolf’s schema the loss of control over identity-­constituting memories is a manifestation of “complete physical and nervous breakdown” (ibid...