By Caitlin Chandler How do you write about a place that occupies a mythic place in the imagination of outsiders? And how do you write about national and personal identity when identity does not obey the neat idea of nation states and borders? American novelist William Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional Southern community, wrapping […]
Memoirs about Africa
May 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor–he’s written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe–and blogger, has a great post about ‘memoirs from Africa.’ Basically he was asked to prepare a year-long reading of books about Africa for school alumni. Burke decided to only include memoirs or first-person perspective accounts from the last 30 years or so. […]
