Features these novels share are the 'madness' of the central character and the trope of the 'store'. It focuses on 'A grove of fever trees' (1950), which is compared with Doris Lessing's 'The grass is singing' (1950). The aim of this article is to develop a mode of reading the South African writer Daphne Rooke that both registers the characteristics of her writing and locates her fiction in a broader frame of colonial writing. Madness and the store: representations of settler society in Doris Lessing's 'The grass is singing' and Daphne Rooke's 'A grove of fever trees'Ĭurrent Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
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