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White women writers and their African invention
- Title
- White women writers and their African invention / Simon Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Simon, 1960-
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 263 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 > Knowledge > Africa
- Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 > Knowledge > Africa
- Women and literature > Africa > History > 20th century
- Authors, South African > 20th century > Biography
- Authors, Danish > 20th century > Biography
- Women, White > Africa > Biography
- Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Africa > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.
- 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 of Africa to produce something new -- 8. Graves with a view: atavism and the European history of Africa.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-522
- ISBN
- 0813026520 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2003054065
- OCLC
- 52374843
- Author
- Lewis, Simon, 1960-
- Title
- White women writers and their African invention / Simon Lewis.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-522