Ernest Hemingway's Francis Macomber in "God's country" -- The anima's many faces in Henry Rider Haggard's She -- The anima and psychic fragmentation in Olive Scheiner's The story of an African farm -- "The reality of the singular" : anima and unus mundus in Laurens van der Post's A story like the wind and A far-off place -- "We are all sailors" : C.G. Jung's Memories, dreams, reflections and Doris Lessing's Briefing for a descent into hell -- "Not a bad man but not good either" : the anima and individuation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- "The eyes in the trees are watching" : the anima and feminine agency in Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible -- Mother is not supreme : the anima and (post)colonial strife in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart and Nadine Gordimer's July's people -- The anima and shadow dynamics in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko