Alexandra Fuller of Southern Africa: a white woman writer goes west

Garman, Anthea; Rennie, Gillian

Title: Alexandra Fuller of Southern Africa: a white woman writer goes west
Creator: Garman, Anthea, Rennie, Gillian
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159924
Identifier: vital:40356
Identifier: https://ialjs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/134-147-LJS_v7n1.pdf
Description: In terms of nationality, Alexandra Fuller is difficult to pigeonhole. She was born in England but from age two was brought up in Southern Africa (mostly Rhodesia). She married an American working in Zambia and then moved to Wyoming to raise a family. She has written three books about her family, their peripatetic life, and the violence of decolonizing Africa. The success of these works has made her one of the few African female nonfction writers to gain an international audience. Fuller’s longform journalism has been published in Granta and the Guardian in the United Kingdom, and in the New Yorker, Harper’s, National Geographic, Byliner, and Vogue in the United States. This paper traces the arc of a writer transcending her continent to break into the competitive American magazine market, portraying the complex land from which she has come for a foreign audience.
Format: 14 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Literary Journalism Studies, Garman, A. and Rennie, G., 2015. Alexandra Fuller of Southern Africa: a white woman writer goes west. Literary Journalism Studies, 7(1), pp.132-145, Literary Journalism Studies volume 7 number 1 132 145 2015
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