Chronicles of Darkness

by David Ward

First published in 1989, Chronicles of Darkness is about images of Africa seen through the eyes of writers, visitors, residents, and native-born. They range from Joseph Conrad and Olive Schreiner, through Laurens van der Post, Karen Blixen and Evelyn Waugh, to more recent writers like Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and J.M. Coetzee.

Such writers have frequently been faced with feelings of alienation, marginality, exile, self-consciousness,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032762853
• ISBN13: 9781032762852
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages