Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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Página iv
... criticism . 4. Imperialism in literature . 5. Africa - In litera- ture . 6. Racism in literature . 7. Race in literature . I. Title . PR6005.04H47645 1999 823'.912 - dc21 This book is printed on acid - free recycled paper meeting the ...
... criticism . 4. Imperialism in literature . 5. Africa - In litera- ture . 6. Racism in literature . 7. Race in literature . I. Title . PR6005.04H47645 1999 823'.912 - dc21 This book is printed on acid - free recycled paper meeting the ...
Página ix
... critics , as well as to ourselves and to our very different world . Even more important , it involves keeping continuously in mind that Heart of Darkness is a work of art and not a sociological treatise , for it Preface.
... critics , as well as to ourselves and to our very different world . Even more important , it involves keeping continuously in mind that Heart of Darkness is a work of art and not a sociological treatise , for it Preface.
Página x
... criticism , as well as in cultural anthropology . For if it is true , as the poet W.H. Auden once remarked , that " poetry makes nothing happen " ( nothing , that is , in the so - called real worlds of politics and money ) , then it is ...
... criticism , as well as in cultural anthropology . For if it is true , as the poet W.H. Auden once remarked , that " poetry makes nothing happen " ( nothing , that is , in the so - called real worlds of politics and money ) , then it is ...
Página xii
... accompanied by a kind of negative double . Among recent critics there even seems to be general agreement that positive or negative stereotypes almost never exist in isolation , so that , for example , in xii ~ Preface.
... accompanied by a kind of negative double . Among recent critics there even seems to be general agreement that positive or negative stereotypes almost never exist in isolation , so that , for example , in xii ~ Preface.
Página xiii
... Criticism , that imagology managed to achieve a modicum of disciplinary respectability . Aside from Dyserinck's original home base at Aachen , there is now another imagological center at the University of Amsterdam , one that even ...
... Criticism , that imagology managed to achieve a modicum of disciplinary respectability . Aside from Dyserinck's original home base at Aachen , there is now another imagological center at the University of Amsterdam , one that even ...
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 |