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This chapter studies late colonial politics in Elspeth Huxley’s A Man fromNowhere and revisits the synergies between her fiction and non-fiction. The chapter discusses the novel’s dialogism and its role in communicating the divergent viewpoints of settlers, government officials and the public at home. The chapter also asks how the genre conventions of middlebrow crime fiction capture the trauma of the imperial encounter, as well as public anxieties about domestic disorder and the perceived loss of traditional values.

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‘It Was All Too Confusing’: Elspeth Huxley and Metropolitan Disorder

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    2025年

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  • Anne Wetherilt

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This chapter studies late colonial politics in Elspeth Huxley’s A Man fromNowhere and revisits the synergies between her fiction and non-fiction. The chapter discusses the novel’s dialogism and its role in communicating the divergent viewpoints of settlers, government officials and the public at home. The chapter also asks how the genre conventions of middlebrow crime fiction capture the trauma of the imperial encounter, as well as public anxieties about domestic disorder and the perceived loss of traditional values.