White women writers and their African invention /
''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.
| Основен автор: | Lewis, Simon, 1960- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
℗♭2003.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=186002 |
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Print version::
White women writers and their African invention. |
Съдържание:
- 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.