Walking the Rift

by Joan Plubell Mattia

Book Overview

The Victorian encounter with Africa contains many micro-narratives that call for a questioning of an old consensus. Tentative assumptions as to the motives of early missionaries and colonial personnel often prove less than satisfactory due to stereotypes and unexplored archives. The need for new master narratives that move beyond the old paradigms of Western expansion and African victimization are being called for by scholars of the Global North and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532600747
• ISBN13: 9781532600746
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"