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A passion for Africans: Psychoanalyzing Karen Blixen's neo‐feudal Kenya

2002; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/18125441.2002.9709655

1753-5409

Diane Simmons,

African cultural and philosophical studies

Recently scholars have begun to read imperialist literature as a portrait of psychological need on the part of those wielding or imagining imperial power. Often, the literature of empire reorganizes the materiality of colonialisation into a narrative of perpetual longing and perpetual loss.