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Title: | New perspectives in African literature: the case of Unity Dow and Alexander McCall Smith's Botswana |
Author: | Kalua, Fetson |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | The English Academy Review |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 71-84 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | novels writers crime novels African identity |
About persons: | Unity Dow R. Alexander McCall Smith (1948-) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17535360712331393486 |
Abstract: | Employing Homi Bhabha's notion of liminality - the idea of 'in-betweenness' - the author shows to which extent Unity Dow's third novel, 'Juggling truths' (2003) and Alexander McCall Smith's 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series (2000-2004) - both set in Botswana - offer new perspectives on African identity by reflecting a cross-cultural consciousness. Avoiding Afrocentric and idyllic notions of cultural purity, both writers provide a refreshing vision of Botswana as an emerging postcolonial nation characterized by 'clashing and mingling of cultures under colonialism and mutations of identity'. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |