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- Publisher: Unknown (1999)
- ASIN: B001IP9L4C
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To understand the role of African settings in contemporary American fiction, it is important to recognize the connotations that Westerners have traditionally associated with Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
safari novels, croc man, invented setting, gorilla hunters, invented nation, testing zone, dangerous wildlife, fiction set, savage beings, literary setting, timeless place, postmodern fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Sierra Leone, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Mau Mau, The Temple of My Familiar, West Africa, The Color Purple, Echo of Lions, The Sheltering Sky, East Africa, South Africa, Henderson the Rain King, Land Without Shadow, The Seersucker Whipsaw, Horn of Africa, White Man's Grave, African Americans, Alphabetical Africa, Peace Corps, Antonia Saw the Oryx First, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Lovers, Paul Bowles, The Toll New!
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To understand the role of African settings in contemporary American fiction, it is important to recognize the connotations that Westerners have traditionally associated with Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
safari novels, croc man, invented setting, gorilla hunters, invented nation, testing zone, dangerous wildlife, fiction set, savage beings, literary setting, timeless place, postmodern fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Sierra Leone, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Mau Mau, The Temple of My Familiar, West Africa, The Color Purple, Echo of Lions, The Sheltering Sky, East Africa, South Africa, Henderson the Rain King, Land Without Shadow, The Seersucker Whipsaw, Horn of Africa, White Man's Grave, African Americans, Alphabetical Africa, Peace Corps, Antonia Saw the Oryx First, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Lovers, Paul Bowles, The Toll New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker on 15 pages
- The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker on 11 pages
- The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) by Paul Bowles on 10 pages
- Echo of Lions by Barbara Chase-Riboud on 10 pages
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker on 10 pages
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- The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Jane Davis in Front Matter
- Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Christine R. Gray in Back Matter
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