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A Question of Power is a novel by Botswana writer Bessie Head. The novel follows Elizabeth as she leaves South Africa to live in Botswana and experiences power relationships. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as a "frankly autobiographical account of disorientation and paranoia in which the heroine survives by sheer force of will".

Elizabeth searches for wholeness, in a journey through hell.

Editions

• A Question of Power:
  • London: Davis-Poynter, 1973.
  • New York: Pantheon, 1974.
  • Heinemann Educational Books (African Writers Series 149), 1974; 1986.
  • Penguin Modern Classics, with an introduction by Margaret Busby, 2002; Penguin African Writers, 2012.

References

1. "Bessie Emery Head | South African Writer, Post-Apartheid Fiction". Britannica. 13 April 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
2. Beard, Linda Susan (December 1979). "Bessie Head's A Question of Power: The Journey Through Disintegration to Wholeness". Colby Quarterly. 15 (4): 267–274.
3. Aull, Felice (2 May 2006). "A Question of Power". LitMed. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
4. Rose, Jacqueline (1994). "On the 'Universality' of Madness: Bessie Head's "A Question of Power"". Critical Inquiry. 20 (3): 401–418. doi:10.1086/448719. ISSN 0093-1896. JSTOR 1343863.
5. NinaG (3 June 2013). "Revisiting Bessie Head's 'A Question of Power' for #WPGhBookClub". Muse & Words. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
6. Head, Bessie (1974). A Question of Power. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-90720-4.
7. "A Question of Power". book-info.com. ISBN 978-0-14-118721-1. Retrieved 29 October 2024.

• Novels set in Botswana
• Novels set in South Africa
• 1974 novels