Chronicles of Darkness

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First published in 1989 Chronicles of Darkness is about images of Africa seen through the eyes of writers visitors residents and native-born. They range from Joseph Conrad and Olive Schreiner through Laurens van der Post Karen Blixen and Evelyn Waugh to more recent writers like Nadine Gordimer Andre Brink and J.M. Coetzee. Such writers have frequently been faced with feelings of alienation marginality exile self-consciousness and egoism. It is only in this sense- that the eyes which see are shadowed and troubled- that Africa is a ‘dark continent’ and that these writings are ‘chronicles of darkness’. In some cases Africa even if merely a backdrop painted in crude and garish colors becomes a …