Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Inquiry about White Man and Magic

that's a great question. louise white's famous essay on zombies in kenya under colonialism. should be easy to dig up. if you need more help, ask and i'll find it.

secondly, voodoo type stuff runs throughout ouologuem's devoir de violence, mostly from the african leaders, but i vaguely remember the white commandant doing stuff back.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Inquiry about White Man and Magic

 

Esteemed scholarly colleagues on the list, I'd appreciate if you could refer me to any literary and/or scholarly work that broaches and analyzes the association of European colonizers with magic, sorcery or witchcraft. I'm particularly interested in works that show how Africans understood or posited the colonial white man as a magician--a worker of magic, miracles, and/or possessor of supernatural powers. Articles, books, book chapters, fiction, poetry, songs, etc would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help on this.

Moses

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