The Masai tribe described in Ernest Hemingway's The Green Hills of Africa (1935) can be seen as a model for Bellow's Arnewi.
The assumptions about European colonialism found in the Tarzan comic strips of Edgar Rice Burroughs are parodied in Bellow's novel.
Among the sources in cultural anthropology that Bellow may have drawn upon are Sir.....
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