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Bessie Head (1937-1986) was born in South Africa, but wrote her novels when living as a refugee in Botswana In her 'trilogy': When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973), she explores the stranger's desire for inclusion Current feminist and postcolonial theory makes metaphorical use of the lack of belonging in searching for new expressions of subjectivity. This study looks to Head's novels for their contribution to that debate, but places them firmly within the historical context of Southern Africa in the late twentieth century. Both the politics of location and the desire for universality are seen as informing Head's texts. The analysis shows that Head's most distinctive contribution lies in her use of 'place' as a means of encompassing change as well as the nourishing soil necessary for the creation of a stable identity..
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Title: Nine ways to handle a boardroom bully: forceful personalities on the board can steer an organization down a destructive path. Here's how to take on that 'bad boy' or 'bad girl'.(BOARD DYNAMICS)
Author: Toni Lynn Chinoy
Publication:Directors & Boards (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Directors and Boards
Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Page: 28(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This publication explains how executives can overcome the emotional barriers to expanding their skill sets in one direction or the other..
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