White Man’s Grave (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Dooling
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1990’s
- Setting: Indianapolis, Paris, and Sierra Leone
- Principal Characters: Randall Killigan, Michael Killigan, Boone Westfall, Idrissa Moiwo, Tom Lewis, Aruna Sisay, Witch Finder, Professor Harris Sawyer
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Supernatural, Midwest, Paris, Lawyers, Anthropology or anthropologists, Comedy
- Locales: Paris, France, Indianapolis, IN, Sierra Leone
Despite the accomplishments of Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and other distinguished African writers, postcolonial Africa remains for most Western readers pretty much what it was in the nineteenth century, the “dark continent” of mystery then, of famine, tribal massacres, civil wars, and AIDS now. That its best-known literary figures— J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Cordimer—are white South Africans says a good deal about the difficulties facing both black writers trying to gain the attention of Western readers and non-African readers trying to find a work that can be said to represent this...
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