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Writing: Characters in Africa

Africa Settings: Writers in search of characters
From Worldview Magazine (v20n2)by David Arnold

“Before being there, my only reference point for any African country was a reading of Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King which, as I recall, was more about crazy Henderson than about Africa. It turns out that this is typical of Americans who write about Africa. Even those like Hemingway who were there…

In this issue of WorldView, we’re sampling writers whose work has become part of our Africa bibliography: Norman Rush, George Packer, Paul Theroux, Leonard Levitt, Kathleen Coskran, Sarah Erdman, Richard Wiley, Maria Thomas and Tony D’Souza…”

Read more here: Worldview Magazine.

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