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The two Africas of Francis Brett Young : exploring Britain's premier novelist of Africa
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- Creator
- Frederick Hale
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cape Town : Africana Publishers, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 394 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780620746250, 0620746254
- OCLC
- ocn979987710
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-386) and index.
- Rediscovering the premier British novelist of Africa -- British writing about Africa illuminated by colonial discourse theory -- Establishing a literary beachhead on the African front: Marching on Tanga -- A misplaced missionary in the Heart of Darkness? The crescent moon -- A microcosm of the tragic British venture in East Africa: Woodsmoke -- Dissecting the worship of Mammon on the Witwatersrand: Pilgrim's Rest -- Into the Heart of Darkness in Portuguese East Africa: Sea horses -- A hybrid international Bildungsroman: Jim Redlake -- Advocating a limited form of racial reconciliation: They seek a country -- The travail of interethnic reconciliation: The city of gold -- Advocating a reconciled, white-dominated Union: In South Africa -- Conclusion