"Deconstructing the Prejudices in Out of Africa by Karen Blixen Through a Critic's Eye"
' Out of Africa ' by Karen Blixen is a novel written by a Danish author and settler;Blixen,while she is in kenya and still runs her 6000 acres of land at the foot of Ngong hills,in present day Karen estate. In the farm she grows coffee on about six hundred acres of land upon which the natives work for one hundred and eighty days per year and earn twelve shillings in a month.Before reading the text,i had somewhat an established prejudice and misconception about what the book talks about (themes)and Blixen's relation with the natives. I had been told by a critic that,Blixen paints a picture in the novel where there exists a hierarchy of beings starting with God at the pinnacle of this hierarchy,Whites come in second,other races such as the Somalis and Coastal Arabs third,animals and nature fourth and the natives are at the bottom of the barrel. This criticism is however dismantled when i read the text with a critics eye, detached from the text and immersed in the authors w...