Dangarembga says that she wrote of "things I had observed and had had direct experience with," but "larger than any one person's own tragedies?[with] a wider implication and origin and therefore were things that needed to be told" (190). One important theme in Nervous Conditions is that of remembering and forgetting?especially the danger of Tambu's forgetting who she is, where she came from?as her brother Nhamo did...
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Dangarembga acknowledges this in the interview (191). "I personally do not have a fund of our cultural tradition or oral history to draw from, but I really did feel that if I am able to put down the little I know then it's a start" (191). Nyasha, the author says, doesn't have anything to forget, for she never knew, was never taught her culture and origins?and this forms "some great big gap inside her...
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