Visiting Africa : A Memoir

O'Reilly-Conlin, Jesse

Demeter Press（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781772583564
• DDC分類 305.8

Full Description

Visiting Africa: A Memoir is a personal journey as well as a physical one: it is about my ongoing and evolving attempt to approach Africa and its cultures with humility and modesty and about my struggles as a privileged white man to ethically encounter and live in a world marked by injustice and racialized inequality. It takes up the present challenge of resurrecting stories that challenge dominant narratives. It is an investigation of privilege and how the privileged must overcome their own defensiveness and feelings of guilt if they are to stand in solidarity with those people they meet and write about. Finally, this book is an investigation into the possibilities of empathy.

Contents

Introduction: Snapshots of Africa
Chapter 1: Thinking of Africa
Chapter 2: In My Mother's Office
Chapter 3: Three Weeks in Montreal
Chapter 4: Teaching English in South Korea
Chapter 5: In the University of Witwatersrand
Chapter 6: Lisbon, Mozambique, Lisbon
Chapter 7: South Africa
Chapter 8: Zimbabwe
Chapter 9: Tanzania
Chapter: 10 Ghana
Afterword: Rwanda