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Book sand wrapper quite poor - Book has a crack by the title page - Wrapper has bit missing. - 269 pg. >>> This book situates Mamisa, the Swazi Warrior, in the rich tradition of settler writing and, more specifically, within the genre of imperial romance. It draws upon translation theory to argue that Allister Miller's novel is an extended act of ventriloquism that attempts to rewrite Swaziland by submerging the reader in a primitive world in order to open temporal and spatial borders to prospective pioneers and obliquely attract further European settlement.