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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... readers, it conveys, better than any other word I can think of, the fusion of simultaneously “seeing” things in reality and “seeing” them with the inward eye of the imagination. In this way it encapsulates the essentially double mission ...
... readers of Blackwood's, for “the subject,” Conrad went on to observe, “is of our time distinctly—though not topically treated.” In other words, Conrad apparently thought of his story as resembling other stories that Blackwood and his ...
... readers will understand what he means when he refers to racism both in the title and elsewhere in his justly celebrated essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness” (1977), for otherwise he would surely have ...
... reader of Conrad's fiction, it must soon become clear that, with certain notable exceptions, Conrad is consistently less well disposed toward German, Russian, Dutch, Belgian, Arab, North American, or Irish characters than he is toward ...
... reader the elementary courtesy of identifying himself or herself and revealing the particular literary theoretical flag she or he is flying under. ENVISIONING AFRICA True symbolism is where the particular represents the Introduction ~ 17.
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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 |