Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review]

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Gehrmann, Richard. 2006. "Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review]." Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts.
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Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review]

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AuthorGehrmann, Richard
Journal TitleCoppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts
Number of Pages3
Year2006
Place of PublicationToowoomba, Australia
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Review of Alexandra Fuller's 2003 publication, Don't lets go to the dogs tonight, London, Random House. Fuller's account of her childhood, growing up in Rhodesia – now Zimbabwe fits into the field of coming-of-age and development of identity memoir, yet is also situated in the genre of postindependence White identity novels, notably those of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun), Douglas Rogers (The Last Resort) and Lauren St John (Rainbow's End). While set in white dominated southern Africa, Fuller's account contains disturbingly familiar echoes to mainstream Australian culture and racial attitudes.

Keywordswhiteness; ethnic identity; white Africans; Zimbabwe; When a Crocodile Eats the Sun; Peter Godwin; Alexandra Fuller
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020369999. Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
430399. Historical studies not elsewhere classified
470530. Stylistics and textual analysis
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Book: Fuller, Alexandra (2003) Don't let's go to the dogs tonight.

Byline AffiliationsDepartment of Humanities and International Studies
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
Book TitleDon't let's go to the dogs tonight
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