Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... 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 reminds us that Heart of Darkness is a ...
... 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 reminds us that Heart of Darkness is a ...
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... Conrad's Heart of darkness / Peter Edgerly Firchow . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8131-2128-0 ( cloth : alk . paper ) 1. Conrad , Joseph , 1857-1924 . Heart of darkness . 2. Conrad , Joseph , 1857-1924 ...
... Conrad's Heart of darkness / Peter Edgerly Firchow . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8131-2128-0 ( cloth : alk . paper ) 1. Conrad , Joseph , 1857-1924 . Heart of darkness . 2. Conrad , Joseph , 1857-1924 ...
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... Conrad's approximate contemporaries ; for , oddly enough , there were very few works of fiction about the Congo in ... Conrad was , he was also , as we all are , inescapably the product of his education and his time . In other words ...
... Conrad's approximate contemporaries ; for , oddly enough , there were very few works of fiction about the Congo in ... Conrad was , he was also , as we all are , inescapably the product of his education and his time . In other words ...
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... Conrad wrote on the last day of 1898 to William Blackwood , the publisher of Blackwood's , who had asked Conrad a short time earlier to supply him with a suitable contri- bution for the one - thousandth issue of his magazine , scheduled ...
... Conrad wrote on the last day of 1898 to William Blackwood , the publisher of Blackwood's , who had asked Conrad a short time earlier to supply him with a suitable contri- bution for the one - thousandth issue of his magazine , scheduled ...
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... Conrad finally submitted to his pub- lisher a short novel almost twice as long as his original estimate . But even despite the considerable increase in bulk and Conrad's sometime trepidation about its possible reception , " The Heart of ...
... Conrad finally submitted to his pub- lisher a short novel almost twice as long as his original estimate . But even despite the considerable increase in bulk and Conrad's sometime trepidation about its possible reception , " The Heart of ...
Contenido
Envisioning Africa | 18 |
A Mere Animal on the Congo | 31 |
Envisioning Kurtz | 62 |
Imperial Sham and Reality in the Congo | 81 |
Unspeakable Rites and Speakable Rites | 109 |
EJ Glave Captain Rom and the Making of Heart of Darkness | 128 |
Exterminating All the Brutes | 148 |
Appendix | 166 |
Notes | 192 |
Works Cited | 236 |
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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 - 2021 |
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 10 - 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.
Referencias a este libro
Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction Nicholas Harrison Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality Byron Caminero-Santangelo Vista previa limitada - 2004 |