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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All these issues come into play through the exploration of the fantasmatic space of mutual mis-recognition and mythmaking between coloniser and colonised, between 'Africa' and 'Europe'.
Table of ContentsContents: Carlotta von Maltzan: Introduction: En/Countering Myths - Thokozile Chaane: Hide and Seek - Lutz van Dijk: Black Inspiration - Renate Welsh: My African Myths - Gcina Mhlophe: Fly, Hat, Fly! - Gunther Pakendorf: Travellers at the Cape, and what they saw - Mawuena Logan: The Image of Africa in the Age of Imperialism and Beyond: The Myth of Postcolonial Africa - Kathleen Thorpe: The state and dignity of an English Gentleman. Thoughts on King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard - Bert Olivier: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan - Myth and/or Critique? - Catherine du Toit: Beyond the Mask: Guy de Maupassant in Algeria - Karen Bouwer: Werewere Liking's It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral: Of Skins and Masks - Violet B. Lunga: Of Hair Identities: Stretching Postcolonial Cultural Identities - Suzanne de Villiers-Human: Art and Magic: The Mask of Wildness - Kennedy C. Chinyowa: Battling between Alienation and Desire: Images of European-ness/Western-ness in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature - Lynda Morgan: Landscapes of Guilt and Desire in the Novels of Thirza Nash - Raylene Ramsay: Under the Influence? The Work of Mariama Ba, Tradition, Islam and the Universal - Pamela S. Saur: European Literary Encounters with North Africa's Physical Environment - Joachim Garbe: Healing and Destructive Powers of the Desert in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Tayeb Salih - Nadja D. Kraemer: Hans Grimm's Afrikafahrt West: A Journey into the Unknown? - Ingrid Laurien: A Land of Promise? Autobiography and Fiction in Frieda von Buelow's East-African Novels - Ulrike Auga: Cultural Politics in South Africa in Transition. Or, Multiculturalism and Economic Policy - Ulrike Kistner: Apartheid and Fascism, Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Political History of a Comparison - John McAllister: These White Men Know Everything: Technology Encounters, Comedy and Ambivalence in African Exploration - Dominique Bediako: Reading African Literature in Germany - Robert Buranello: Tra i reticolati: The Literature of Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa - Alida Poeti: Black Harlequin: Italian Theatre Crossing Cultural Boundaries.
