Livingstone’s Companions (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: About 1970
- Setting: Africa
- Principal Characters: Carl Church, Mrs. Palmer, Dick Palmer, Zelide
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Colonies or colonization, Hotels, motels, or inns, Lakes, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Africa
The Story
“Livingstone's Companions” is a somewhat indeterminate story, for it combines two tangential but still related plot interests: Carl Church and his fascination with the lake near the hotel where he is staying, and Dick Palmer's attempt to break the bonds of his domineering mother. Both these stories are undergirded by Church's reading the journals of the famous Scottish missionary/explorer of Africa, David Livingstone. Moreover, providing a social background (typical of Nadine Gordimer's fiction) is the story of the complex relationship between white colonials and...
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