Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s short story “My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa” (2006) provide two different and polarizing portrayals of Africa under the umbrella shadow of colonialism. While Pollack’s film transforms Karen Blixen’s memoir into a lush, nostalgic romance of white settlers in Kenya, Gurnah’s … Continue reading Gardens of Empire, Ghosts of Memory: Gender and Colonialism in Out of Africa and Gurnah’s “My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa”