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The protagonist of a play by this author is rejected by her lover Freddy after he learns of her pregnancy, but later becomes a successful single mother who starts a thriving legal practice. A collection of three essays by this author includes “Writing While Black and Female” and “Black, Female, and the Superwoman Black Feminist.” In a novel by this author, the protagonist’s teacher takes her to a local urban center to sell ears of corn, where a (-5[1])white couple gives her ten pounds. (10[1])This author of the play She No Longer Weeps opens a novel with the confession “I was not sorry when my brother died.” (10[1]-5[1])A novel by this author (10[1])begins (-5[1])with the death (10[1])of Nhamo, who had been studying away from home with his uncle Babamukuru (10[1])and his cousin Nyasha. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this Zimbabwean (10[2])author (-5[2])who wrote about (10[1]-5[1])Tambu’s efforts (10[2]-5[1])to attend school in her novel Nervous (10[4])Conditions. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: Tsitsi Dangarembga (The essay collection is “Black and Female.”)
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