Word: colonists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist's unveiling of how colonist and native took advantage of peculiarities in the other's mental makeup provides the revelatory pleasures of a mystery. Dickinson also manages to evoke the evolution of feminism, the modern Islamization of animist tribes, the rise of media hegemony and the fall of the British empire. His descriptions are extraordinarily vivid...
Criticisms and arguments on American manners are among the nation's oldest traditions. As early as 1795, a would-be colonist named Isaac Weld went to live in the New World and then returned to England complaining of Americans that "civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible with freedom." By the time Frances Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth...
...outsiders are not better," said Mary J. Moore, a deputy clerk in superior court who has been an usher, sung in the choir and played a colonist. "They're just more professional." Mary's husband Frank has worked backstage, and her daughters Betty, Janie and Gracie have all had roles...