Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
White women writers and their African invention.
International Standard Book Number
9780813026527
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962-- Knowledge-- Africa.
Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920-- Knowledge-- Africa.
Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962-- Et l'Afrique.
Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920-- Et l'Afrique.
Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962.
Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Authors, Danish-- 20th century, Biography.
Authors, South African-- 20th century, Biography.
Women and literature-- Africa-- History-- 20th century.
Women, White-- Africa, Biography.
Afrique dans la littérature.
Blanches-- Afrique, Biographies.
Écrivains danois-- 20e siècle, Biographies.
Écrivains sud-africains-- 20e siècle, Biographies.
Femmes et littérature-- Afrique-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.