White women writers and their African invention:
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Beteilige Person: Lewis, Simon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index
Part 1: "I" -- 1. The invention of the "I" -- 2. Of masquerades and masks: miming and alterity -- 3. The childless mother and motherless child, or the orphanhood of the white woman writer in Africa -- Part 2: "Had a farm" -- 4. Stories of African farms and the politics of landscape -- 5. Culture, cultivation, and colonialism in Out of Africa and beyond -- 6. Violence and voluntarism: the will to power and the will to die -- Part 3: "In Africa" -- 7. X-ing out Africa to produce something new -- 8. Graves with a view: atavism and the European history of Africa
''A pioneering book . . . original in its arguments, thorough in its presentation of the complex contexts of the white woman writer in Africa, and sophisticated in its set of readings and in its combination of biography, social history, and criticism
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 263 p.)
ISBN:0813031834
9780813031835