Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M07 11 - 288 páginas For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of Darkness is a novel rather than a sociological treatise; only in relation to its aesthetic significance can real social and intellectual-historical meaning be established. Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account. Firchow uses a framework of imagology to examine how national, ethnic, and racial images are portrayed in the text, differentiating the idea of a national stereotype from that of national character. He believes that what Conrad saw personally in Africa should not be confused with the Africa he describes in the novel; Heart of Darkness is instead an envisioning and a revisioning of Conrad's experiences in the medium of fiction. |
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... Marlow's voyage up the Congo, often as productive of disorientation as it is of illumination. Like Marlow's too, it is a journey that in the end leads to a kind of heart of intellectual darkness, an aporial place where there are no ...
... Marlow say that “the conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much” (HD 10) ...
... Marlow's attitude toward the Belgian agents in the Congo (with the exception of Kurtz) but is not relevant to his attitude toward the various African tribal groups he encounters. Finally, the last stage is outright racism, “which ...
... Marlow encounters a man whose name (Kurtz) signifies brevity itself and whose memory, despite an acquaintance of no more than a few days, remains deep and indelible. It is Marlow's search for this elusive figure—and the meaning of both ...
... Marlow tells his friends aboard the yawl Nellie while awaiting the turn of the tide in the Thames estuary. That this ... Marlow's tales differ from those of other mariners in that, among other things, they consist of “inconclusive ...
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3 Envisioning Kurtz | 62 |
4 Imperial Sham and Reality in the Congo | 81 |
5 Unspeakable Rites and Speakable Rights | 109 |
6 EJ Glave Captain Rom and the Making of Heart of Darkness | 128 |
Exterminating All the Brutes | 148 |
Appendix | 166 |
Notes | 192 |
Works Cited | 236 |
Index | 250 |
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Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |