Land, Freedom and Fiction by David Maughan Brown

Land, Freedom and Fiction by David Maughan Brown

Author:David Maughan Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Book Network International
Published: 2017-08-17T16:00:00+00:00


Notes

1. Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 87.

2. Ibid., p. 85.

3. Ibid., p. 117.

4. N. Sheraton, African Terror (London, Robert Hale, 1957), p. 28. ‘Neil Sheraton’ is the pseudonym of Norman Edward Mace Smith who was an airline pilot at the time when he wrote this novel.

5. M. Harding, Mask of Friendship (London, Collins, 1956), p. 27.

6. W.B. Thomas, The Touch of Pitch (London, Allan Wingate, 1956), p. 213.

7. Ruark, Something of Value, p. 191.

8. Ibid., p. 193.

9. Ibid., p. 211.

10. R.Ruark, Uhuru (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962).

11. M.M. Kaye, Later Than You Think (London, Longman, 1958).

12. C.T. Stoneham, Kenya Mystery (London, Museum Press, 1954).

13. E.W. Said, Orientalism (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), p. 32.

14. Ibid., p. 36.

15. Huxley, Race and Politics, p. 41.

16. E.Huxley, Forks and Hope (London, Chatto & Windus, 1964), p. 256.

17. Harding, p. 115.

18. Thomas, blurb preceding title page.

19. Ibid., p. 25.

20. It can only be this suggestion that a white man could be so villainous as to commit a murder and then frame a black for his crime that has resulted in this novel being the only one of those under consideration in this chapter to be banned in South Africa.

21. Thomas, p. 82.

22. Ibid., p. 196.

23. Ibid., p. 191.

24. Ibid., seriatim pp. 75, 72 (for one of many examples), 90, 176.

25. Ruark, Something of Value Corgi Paperback Edition (London, Transworld Publishers, 1980).

26. Ruark, Uhuru, p. ix.

27. Private letter from Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (signed by an editorial consultant), 29/1/79: ‘. . .we never disclose sales figures’. My letter to Transworld Publishers was not acknowledged.

28. Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, (Chicago, Chicago U. P., 1961).

29. Ruark, Uhuru, p. 181.

30. Ibid., p.x.

31. Ruark, Something of Value, p. 209.

32. Ibid., p. 7.

33. Ruark, Uhuru, p. vii.

34. Ruark, Something of Value, p. 211.

35. Ruark, Uhuru, p. 367.

36. Cf. Carothers, pp. 15–18.

37. Thomas, p. 72.

38. Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 139.

39. Stoneham, p. 40.

40. Kaye, p. 117.

41. Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 104.

42. Ibid.

43. Thomas, p. 47.

44. Ibid., p. 48.

45. Ruark, Uhuru, p. 356.

46. Ibid.

47. Sheraton, p. 56.

48. Ruark, Something of Value, p. 121. See also e.g. pp. 158, 179.

49. Ibid., p. 17. Emphasis added.

50. Harding, p. 146.

51. Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 66.

52. Kaye, p. 10.

53. E.g. Harding, pp. 94, 198.

54. Stoneham, Kenya Mystery, p. 141.

55. Kaye, p. 116.

56. Thomas, p. 93.

57. Ruark, Uhuru, p. 177.

58. Sheraton, p. 30.

59. Ibid., p. 172.

60. Ruark, Something of Value, p. 308.

61. Ibid., p. 290.

62. Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 159. See also Ruark, Something of Value, p. 301.

63. Stoneham, Kenya Mystery, p. 67.

64. E.g. Thomas, p. 63; Huxley, A Thing to Love, p. 128; Stoneham, Kenya Mystery, p. 59.

65. See particularly Something of Value, pp. 388–98, 472–3.

66. Ibid., p. 473.

67. Ibid., p. 308.

68. Ruark, Something of Value, pp. 330–1.

69. Ibid., p. 332.

70. Sheraton, p. 65.

71. Kaye, p. 88. The committing of a murder by every person who took the oath would, of course, have resulted in the deaths of a good half of the non-Gikuyu population of Kenya.



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