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"It is easy to mistake this comedy for a display of racial prejudice. There is no doubt that Evelyn Waugh, like most Englishmen of his class and time, harbored a measure of such prejudice. But his imagination was more evenhanded. It was the clash of different cultures in colonial and postcolonial Africa, all seeking to exploit each other, that fascinated Waugh...."Waugh, Evelyn is the author of 'Black Mischief', published 2002 under ISBN 9780316917339 and ISBN 0316917338.
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