Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination

This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.

ISBN-13: 9781531505486

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Publication Date: 01-02-2024

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

Megan Cole Paustian is Associate Professor of English at North Central College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The White Savior Narrative and the Third Sector Novel | 1

1. The Moral Cause | 33

2. The Emancipated African | 67

3. The Universal Human | 101

4. The Benevolent Gift | 134

5. The Nongovernmental Organization | 169

Epilogue: Rearticulating the Humanitarian Atlantic | 207

Acknowledgments | 215

Notes | 219

Works Cited | 251

Index | 267

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