Annie's review
Scribbling The Cat by Alexandra Fuller
Annie's review
rating:
recommended for: memoirists, those interested in Sub-Saharan Africa
status: Read in April, 2007
rating:
recommended for: memoirists, those interested in Sub-Saharan Africa
status: Read in April, 2007
I love the way Alexandra Fuller writes. It is just a pleasure to luxuriate in her prose. This book is part memoir, part biography of a colonist-soldier in the Rhodesian War, part non-fiction about current-day Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The book wends its way through the complexities of race relations and tangled histories in Southern Africa, but the author has a definite blind spot in her interpretation of the war, its history, and its aftermath. I am uneasy about reading history through its effects on white people, and it is a testament to Fuller's writing that this book is so compelling in spite of its biases.
The book wends its way through the complexities of race relations and tangled histories in Southern Africa, but the author has a definite blind spot in her interpretation of the war, its history, and its aftermath. I am uneasy about reading history through its effects on white people, and it is a testament to Fuller's writing that this book is so compelling in spite of its biases.
