'The Leeches Are the Least of the Worries': Blankscapes and Another Other in Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers and Biyi Bandele's The King's Rifle.
Jamaica Kincaid's botanical travelogue Among Flowers (Antigua, 2005) and Biyi Bandele's novel The King's Rifle (Nigeria, 2007) depict parts of the world-Burma and Nepal-familiarized through their shared encounter with British colonialism. Yet, these countries are also radically different from Antigu...
| Publicado en: | Research in African Literatures Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 19 - 37 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Spring2015
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