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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... remarks that it is “often used imprecisely; even among anthropologists there is no generally accepted classification or terminology,” an observation that, if true, leads one to wonder what can possibly be meant by “imprecisely” here—but ...
... remarks in the epigraph from Grimm's Fairy Tales that Conrad selected when he republished Heart of Darkness in book form, “No; something human is dearer to me than the wealth of all the world.” For Marlow the most immediate symbolic ...
... remarks of Kurtz, to “see things,” including economic, social, and political things, even if only secondarily. Or, to quote the celebrated words of Conrad's own artistic manifesto, the preface to the Nigger of the 'Narcissus,' written ...
... remarks of a white passerby whom Achebe happens to meet in an Amherst parking lot, a naive letter he receives from a young student in Yonkers, a reference that he makes to an unnamed essay written by the historian Hugh Trevor Roper, an ...
... remarks on this passage, Chinua Achebe neglects to take into account the symbolic contrast between the human African and the animal Kurtz implicit here; he points to it instead as an instance of what he feels is Conrad's psychotic ...
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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 |