The paper examines language as a discourse mode of communicating the modulations and dimensions power in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather. explores relationship between social relationships narrative. focus essay is on shifting encounters. adopts critical linguistic study (CLS) to underpin how consciousness permeate theoretical model draws from works Roger Fowler Norman Fairclough. By adop...

The current study examines the influence of identity on literary commitment in Bessie Head’s When rain clouds gather. In particular, the study is interested in the hybrid syncretic crossings reflected in the text and which define her commitment as a writer in the Third Space – a dimension that has so far been overlooked by critics of her literary works. The study adopts the analytical research ...

This essay invokes a line of historical singing lessons that locate blues singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters in the lineage Broadway belters. Contesting idea black women who sang performed on musical stage early twentieth century possessed “untrained” voices—a pervasive narrative retains currency present-day voice pedagogy literature—I argue is sonic citational practice. In act producing voc...