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
White women writers and their African invention
Erschienen:
c2003
Verlag:
University Press of Florida, Gainesville
''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
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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''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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index. - Description based on print version record
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.