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Author:

Lewis, Simon, 1960-

Title:

White women writers and their African invention / Simon Lewis.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

viii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Schreiner, Olive,--1855-1920--Africa.--Africa.
Dinesen, Isak,--1885-1962--Africa.--Africa.
Women and literature--Africa--History--20th century.
Authors, South African--20th century--Biography.
Authors, Danish--20th century--Biography.
White women--Africa--Biography.
Africa--Intellectual life--20th century.
Africa--In literature.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780813026527 (acid-free paper)
0813026520 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52374843

LCCN:

2003054065

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)