Out of Africa
3 journalers for this copy...
I saw the movie for the first time a couple of weeks ago so I decided I needed to read the book!! I'll probally do a ring with it when I'm done reading it.
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Participants:
Name (location) Ship pref
smilingheron (OR, USA) Int'l
RockBird (CA, USA) US shipping<---On it's way here
jmsmom (OK, US) Int'l
hopi100 (VA, USA) Int'l
mrsjensen (UK) Int'l
arugh48187 (India) Int'l
MRWiley (OR, USA) Home (so I can read it)
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mailed today
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USPS DC# 03062400000202485590
Just received as a leg on the bookring. Perfect! I am between novels so this came at a perfect time. Thanks, MRWiley for adding me to the ring!
I am torn. I wanted to read this as I'd seen the movie (albeit years ago) and enjoyed it AND I've BEEN to Kenya and was curious to see what Isak Dinesen would say about it. She evoked the countryside - the trees, the plains, the mountains, the animals. The way she wrote about it brought it all back to me (not that I was there for very long, it was several weeks when I was 13 but STILL...I do remember).
What bothered me was how she wrote about the people - the 'natives'. I realize that she is a product of her time AND that Kenya was colonized by the British which gave white people, I think, a sense of superiority. This comes through in her writing, very much 'us' and 'them' and she speaks of some of the natives (maybe all?) as though they are a different species. I did not like this.
So. I LOVED how she wrote about the land and the animals, did NOT like how she wrote about the natives. I'm glad I read it, and now it's time to pass it on...waiting for RockBird's address...
What bothered me was how she wrote about the people - the 'natives'. I realize that she is a product of her time AND that Kenya was colonized by the British which gave white people, I think, a sense of superiority. This comes through in her writing, very much 'us' and 'them' and she speaks of some of the natives (maybe all?) as though they are a different species. I did not like this.
So. I LOVED how she wrote about the land and the animals, did NOT like how she wrote about the natives. I'm glad I read it, and now it's time to pass it on...waiting for RockBird's address...
Sent 2 days ago to RockBird...
Recieved a week or two ago (sorry about the delay in journalling). I'm almost done with it, so I'll have it in the mail by Saturday.
