TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Simon TI - White women writers and their African invention SN - 0813026520 (acidfree paper) AV - PR9369.2.S37 Z7 2003 U1 - 820.9/326 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Schreiner, Olive, KW - Dinesen, Isak, KW - Women and literature KW - Africa KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Authors, South African KW - Biography KW - Authors, Danish KW - Women, White KW - Intellectual life KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index; Pt. 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. Pt. 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. Pt. 3 - "In Africa" : 7. X-ing Out Africa to Produce Something New -- 8. Graves with a View: Atavism and the European History of Africa ER -