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" White women writers and their African invention / "
Simon Lewis.
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BL
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Record Number
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1039723
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Doc. No
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b794093
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Main Entry
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Lewis, Simon,1960-
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Title & Author
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White women writers and their African invention /\ Simon Lewis.
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Publication Statement
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Gainesville :: University Press of Florida,, ©2003.
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Page. NO
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viii, 263 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0813026520
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: 9780813026527
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
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Contents
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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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Abstract
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"White women writers and their African invention analyzes the cultural roles played by white women writing on or about farms in South and East Africa, focusing on Olive Schreiner and Karen Blixen and situating their work in the context of some of their contemporaries and successors, white and black, female and male."--Introduction.
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Subject
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Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962-- Knowledge-- Africa.
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Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920-- Knowledge-- Africa.
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Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962-- Et l'Afrique.
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Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920-- Et l'Afrique.
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Blixen, Tania, 1885-1962
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Dinesen, Isak,1885-1962
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Dinesen, Isak.
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Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
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Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920
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Schreiner, Olive,1855-1920.
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Authors, Danish-- 20th century, Biography.
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Authors, South African-- 20th century, Biography.
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Women and literature-- Africa-- History-- 20th century.
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Women, White-- Africa, Biography.
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Afrique dans la littérature.
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Blanches-- Afrique, Biographies.
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Écrivains danois-- 20e siècle, Biographies.
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Écrivains sud-africains-- 20e siècle, Biographies.
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Femmes et littérature-- Afrique-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Afrikabild
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Authors, Danish.
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Authors, South African.
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Biografische Literatur
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Fantasie
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Intellectual life.
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Literatur
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Literature.
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Schriftstellerin
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Weibliche Weiße
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Women and literature.
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Women, White.
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Boerderijen.
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Deens.
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Engels.
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Letterkunde.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Africa, In literature.
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Africa, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Afrique, Vie intellectuelle, 20e siècle.
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Africa.
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Afrika
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Weiße.
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Dewey Classification
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820.9/326
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LC Classification
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PR9369.2.S37Z7 2003
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NLM classification
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18.07bcl
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18.20bcl
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GX 1533rvk
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HP 9061rvk
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