Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... claims , and his rational , 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 ...
... claims , and his rational , 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 ...
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... claim to anything more than a phenomenological reality . A stereotype , in other words , is simply a mental image that an ethnic or national group has of itself or of another equivalent group . There is a clear and generally ...
... claim to anything more than a phenomenological reality . A stereotype , in other words , is simply a mental image that an ethnic or national group has of itself or of another equivalent group . There is a clear and generally ...
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... claim superi- ority on the part of Europeans on the grounds of alleged genetic or bio- logical difference . The derogatory comments made by Marlow about Africans , for example , do not pertain primarily to their physical appear- ance ...
... claim superi- ority on the part of Europeans on the grounds of alleged genetic or bio- logical difference . The derogatory comments made by Marlow about Africans , for example , do not pertain primarily to their physical appear- ance ...
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... claims that the racist / imperialist scramble for Africa was the prelude to , and the model for , the horrific genocides of our century . Lindqvist's conten- tion , along with its relevance for Heart of Darkness , is examined in de ...
... claims that the racist / imperialist scramble for Africa was the prelude to , and the model for , the horrific genocides of our century . Lindqvist's conten- tion , along with its relevance for Heart of Darkness , is examined in de ...
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... claim that closely resembles the one made by Marlow at the beginning of Heart of Darkness when he draws a distinction between the British Empire's redemption through the " unselfish belief in an idea " and all the remaining imperial ...
... claim that closely resembles the one made by Marlow at the beginning of Heart of Darkness when he draws a distinction between the British Empire's redemption through the " unselfish belief in an idea " and all the remaining imperial ...
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
aboard the Nellie According Achebe Achebe's actually Almayer's Folly animal apparently Arabs atrocities Bangala Belgian Black Amazon Brantlinger Britain British cannibalism canoes century character chief Chinua Achebe colonial Congo Free Congo River context critics cultural death described downriver Dragutin Lerman earlier Empire English envisioning essay ethnic European evidence explorer fact fiction genocide Glave grunt Haussa heart of Africa Heart of Darkness Hodister horror human Ian Watt idea imperialism imperialist Inner Station irony ivory Joseph Conrad Kayerts Kinshasa Kurtz language later least Leopold's Lindqvist literary Lord Jim Marlow Matadi means moral narrator natives never nigger novel officer original Outer Station Outpost of Progress perhaps race racial racism readers reference remarks Roman rubber Savage seems sense sham Sherry skulls slave Stanley Falls steamer stereotypes suggests supposedly symbolic tion Tippo Tib trade tribe unspeakable rites village Wagenia Western words writing Zanzibari
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 |