In Besi Heads short story "Life" the main character is murdered by her husband. He gets sentenced by a white judge to only a few years in prison. In Heads short story "The Collector of Treasures," the protagonist, Dikeledi, murders her husband and is sentenced to life prison. By putting these two short stories into their historical context to be analyzed, it would be so clear that there are certain issues that has been raised …
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…women and sexism to come to an end very soon. Work cited Mama, Amina. "Sheroes and Villans: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against women in Africa." Postcolonial Discourse: An Anthology. Ed. Gregory Castle. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 252-68 Head, Bessie. "life." The Collector of Treasures and Other Bostwana Village Tales. By Bessie Head. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992. 37-46. Head, Bessie. "The Collector of Treasures." The Collector of Treasures and Other Bostwana Village Tales. By Bessie Head. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992. 87-103.