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White women writers and their African invention

Author: Simon Lewis
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Olive Schreiner; Isak Dinesen; Olive Schreiner; Isak Dinesen
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Lewis
ISBN: 0813026520 9780813026527
OCLC Number: 52374843
Description: viii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Simon Lewis.

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