Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... close connection with that method of analyzing literature which over the last thirty years has become familiar to students of literary theory and comparative literature as " imagology " or " image studies . " Put simply , imagology is ...
... close connection with that method of analyzing literature which over the last thirty years has become familiar to students of literary theory and comparative literature as " imagology " or " image studies . " Put simply , imagology is ...
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... close of the twentieth century , for all of these as well as other , less intellectually respectable reasons ( including its convenient brevity ) , Heart of Darkness occupies a unique place even among canoni- cal texts . Of what other ...
... close of the twentieth century , for all of these as well as other , less intellectually respectable reasons ( including its convenient brevity ) , Heart of Darkness occupies a unique place even among canoni- cal texts . Of what other ...
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... close proximity who may be felt as a threat to one's cultural and racial integrity or economic well - being . " 2 ( The first use of " racism " in this sense , according to the same source , does not occur in English until 1936 , twelve ...
... close proximity who may be felt as a threat to one's cultural and racial integrity or economic well - being . " 2 ( The first use of " racism " in this sense , according to the same source , does not occur in English until 1936 , twelve ...
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... close quarters with people from a wide variety of national and ethnic backgrounds , it is not surprising that he should seek to reflect this multinational , multiethnic experience in his work . But although Conrad is clearly a special ...
... close quarters with people from a wide variety of national and ethnic backgrounds , it is not surprising that he should seek to reflect this multinational , multiethnic experience in his work . But although Conrad is clearly a special ...
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... close link be- tween racism and imperialism.10 Both Gates and Mason , for example , argue that European racism arose during the first great period of Euro- pean global expansion in the late fifteenth century when Europeans first began ...
... close link be- tween racism and imperialism.10 Both Gates and Mason , for example , argue that European racism arose during the first great period of Euro- pean global expansion in the late fifteenth century when Europeans first began ...
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
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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 |