| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) |
| 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 Africa to produce something new -- 8. Graves with a view: atavism and the European history of Africa |
| Summary |
''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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 -- Knowledge -- Africa
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Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Knowledge -- Africa
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| SUBJECT |
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 fast |
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Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 fast |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, Danish -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women, White -- Africa -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, Danish
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Authors, South African
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Women and literature
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Women, White
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Deens.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Boerderijen.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Africa -- In literature
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813031835 |
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0813031834 |
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