Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021 M03 17 - 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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... narrators, personified or otherwise, claim superiority on the part of Europeans on the grounds of alleged genetic or biological difference. The derogatory comments made by Marlow about Africans, for example, do not pertain primarily to ...
... Narrator or by Conrad himself; on the contrary, Marlow's shock when he encounters the scrawled postscript shows how far removed he himself is from similar thoughts. It should be clear by now that it is formidably difficult to provide a ...
... narrators in Heart of Darkness are racist and imperialist? The answer, as so often in such situations, is both yes and no. Yes, if we can agree on a single definition that is both internally coherent and externally reflective of what we ...
... narrator of the frame story explains to his readers that Marlow's tales differ from those of other mariners in that, among other things, they consist of “inconclusive experiences.” They differ in this respect because they belong to the ...
... narrator?4 Again, the answers to these questions are and will be to some degree inconclusive, yet they must be asked, for on them depends the larger answer to who “we” are, and what our essential identity is. And they must be asked ...
Contenido
Envisioning Kurtz | |
Imperial Sham and Reality in the Congo | |
Unspeakable Rites and Speakable Rights | |
E J Glave Captain Rom and the Making of Heart of Darkness | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
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 |