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.
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