White women writers and their African invention / Simon Lewis.
Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.Description: viii, 263 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0813026520 (acidfree paper)
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- Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, Danish -- 20th century -- Biography
- Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Women, White -- Africa -- Biography
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- PR9369.2.S37 Z7 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.
Pt. 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. Pt. 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. Pt. 3 - "In Africa" : 7. X-ing Out Africa to Produce Something New -- 8. Graves with a View: Atavism and the European History of Africa.