Social Groups In Nervous Conditions

In the novel Nervous Conditions two social groups are introduced. These two social groups are the native people of Zimbabwe and the western people in which they are carried, compared and contrasted throughout the novel. However, the question of “Which social groups are marginalized, excluded, or silenced within the text?” is brought into question. The native people are perceived as ignorant due to them being uneducated. However, the western people are displayed as civil because they are educated. This shows how differently both societies are portrayed in the novel. One of these social groups, the western people, is silenced throughout the novel while the other social group, the native people, is forthright throughout the novel. This novel eliminated

Tsitsi as a Zimbabwean woman who was educated in western school, always spoke about things in her novel from a native perspective as all her characters were from Zimbabwe. There were no western people introduced to us in the novel showing that everything that was said about them in the novel were just only a perspective of Zimbabwean girl named Tambu. This made me conclude that maybe Tsitsi made it this way because she believes, or rather believed that this how the western world perceive things, or what she would have imagined back when she was a child, before she lived and experienced what it is like to live in a western society.
In conclusion, in the novel Nervous Conditions the two social groups were represented in that certain way due to Tsitsi’s viewpoint on them. Maybe if a different author wrote it, both societies would have been represented in a different way. If a western person wrote the book instead, maybe the Zimbabwean people would have been the silenced group instead. This shows in the end that social groups are sometimes presented in a particular way due to stereotypes and what a person is brought up to think of different