Alexandra Fuller of Southern Africa: a white woman writer goes west
- Authors: Garman, Anthea , Rennie, Gillian
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159924 , vital:40356 , 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.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Precisely. Not five. Not seven. Six.: teaching journalism
- Authors: Rennie, Gillian
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454839 , vital:75380 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC135796
- Description: After just one month at university, they had to tell their life story in six words. Precisely. Not five. Not seven. Six. And they were scared. So they made a noise. So I did too. Eventually they listened and this is what they heard.
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- Date Issued: 2011
I remember having mac and cheese at my gran’s house:
- Authors: Rennie, Gillian
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159471 , vital:40300 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139376
- Description: In a tutorial entitled The evolution of MEdia, writing and editing lecturer Gillian Rennie introduced Rhodes University first-year journalism and media studies students to Denis Hirson's I Remember King Kong (the boxer) and asked them to write their own I Remember, focusing on their personal relationships with the media. This is the edited result of a collective exercise in recollection by 270 students.
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- Date Issued: 2010