An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century

by Dennis Hickey, Kenneth C. Wylie

Overview

This ambitious and stimulating study, couched in terms accessible to general readers while firmly rooted in scholarship, surveys twentieth-century American images of and attitudes toward Africa. . . . It is not possible. . . to do justice to the diversity of voices and range of viewpoints considered, simple exposure to which is quite enough to recommend the volume highly.
-Jay Spaulding, Kean College The International Journal of African Historical Studies
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870133213
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	06/30/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

The authors analyze the way truisms and stereotypes have perpetuated negative and naive images of Africa and its people, and probe the reasons behind the persistence of these views--even among the supposedly well-educated. Considering popular and scholarly sources, they urge the rejection of symbolic conventions, including those that may appear to be "politically correct". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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