Africa and Europe: En/Countering Myths : Essays on Literature and Cultural Politics

by Maltzan, Carlotta Von

• ISBN13: 9780820464626
• ISBN10: 0820464627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Carlotta von Maltzan is an Associate Professor for German in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Table of Contents

Introduction: En/Countering Myths	p. 11
Africa and Europe: Authors' Voices
Hide and Seek	p. 21
Black Inspiration	p. 22
My African Myths	p. 23
Fly, Hat, Fly!	p. 25
Myths and Masks
Travellers at the Cape, and what they saw	p. 29
The Image of Africa in the Age of Imperialism and Beyond: The Myth of Postcolonial Africa	p. 41
"The state and dignity of an English Gentleman" Thoughts on King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard	p. 53
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan--Myth and/or Critique?	p. 65
Beyond the Mask: Guy de Maupassant in Algeria	p. 77
Werewere Liking's It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral: Of Skins and Masks	p. 91
Of Hair Identities: Stretching Postcolonial Cultural Identities	p. 103
Art and Magic: The Mask of Wildness	p. 119
Images and Perceptions
Battling between Alienation and Desire: Images of "European-ness/Western-ness" in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature	p. 133
Landscapes of Guilt and Desire in the Novels of Thirza Nash	p. 147
Under the Influence? The Work of Mariama Ba, Tradition, Islam and the Universal	p. 157
European Literary Encounters with North Africa's Physical Environment	p. 171
Healing and Destructive Powers of the Desert in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Tayeb Salih	p. 183
Hans Grimm's Afrikafahrt West: A Journey into the Unknown?	p. 191
"A Land of Promise?" Autobiography and Fiction in Frieda von Bulow's East-African Novels	p. 203
Culture and Politics
Cultural Politics in South Africa in Transition. Or, Multiculturalism and Economic Policy	p. 215
Apartheid and Fascism, Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Political History of a Comparison	p. 227
"These White Men Know Everything": Technology Encounters, Comedy and Ambivalence in African Exploration	p. 239
Reading African Literature in Germany	p. 249
Tra i reticolati: The Literature of Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa	p. 259
Black Harlequin: Italian Theatre Crossing Cultural Boundaries	p. 273
Notes on Contributors	p. 283
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