Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review]
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Article Title | Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review] |
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Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Gehrmann, Richard |
Journal Title | Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts |
Number of Pages | 3 |
Year | 2006 |
Place of Publication | Toowoomba, Australia |
Abstract | 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. |
Keywords | whiteness; ethnic identity; white Africans; Zimbabwe; When a Crocodile Eats the Sun; Peter Godwin; Alexandra Fuller |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 369999. Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified |
430399. Historical studies not elsewhere classified | |
470530. Stylistics and textual analysis | |
Public Notes | This publication is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in part for the purposes of study, research, or review, but is subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgment of the source. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Humanities and International Studies |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Book Title | Don't let's go to the dogs tonight |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1797/booze-and-gunshots-in-a-hot-dry-summer-an-african-childhood-book-review
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