Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... European imperi- alism 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 rational , carefully argued response allows the ...
... European imperi- alism 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 rational , carefully argued response allows the ...
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... journal , European Studies , under the editorship of Joep Leerssen and others . The idea of a national stereotype , it is important to remember , differs from that of national character in that the former makes Preface ~ xiii.
... journal , European Studies , under the editorship of Joep Leerssen and others . The idea of a national stereotype , it is important to remember , differs from that of national character in that the former makes Preface ~ xiii.
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... Europeans who worked in or traveled through Central Africa during the closing years of the last century and who also bothered to record their impressions . Though I have relied in part on previous work by scholars such as Norman Sherry ...
... Europeans who worked in or traveled through Central Africa during the closing years of the last century and who also bothered to record their impressions . Though I have relied in part on previous work by scholars such as Norman Sherry ...
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... European imperialism in Africa . Even so it was not until sometime after the Second World War that the novel began slowly to turn into a " classic , " that is , into an integral part of the canon of " required " texts that were and for ...
... European imperialism in Africa . Even so it was not until sometime after the Second World War that the novel began slowly to turn into a " classic , " that is , into an integral part of the canon of " required " texts that were and for ...
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... Europe , and the Common- wealth states . The reasons for this are manifold ; to cite only the most obvious ones , they have to do with ( 1 ) the phenomenal growth of so- called general education programs in the American university ...
... Europe , and the Common- wealth states . The reasons for this are manifold ; to cite only the most obvious ones , they have to do with ( 1 ) the phenomenal growth of so- called general education programs in the American university ...
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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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 - 2021 |
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
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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.
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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 |