Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... 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 also true , as Auden went ...
... 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 also true , as Auden went ...
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... , for example , insists bluntly on the " obvious " truth that " national identity is no ontological category , but a form of cultural production " ( 11 ) . Whatever side we take , the issues of national identity Preface ~ xi.
... , for example , insists bluntly on the " obvious " truth that " national identity is no ontological category , but a form of cultural production " ( 11 ) . Whatever side we take , the issues of national identity Preface ~ xi.
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... cultural anthropologists , and historians dealing with the difficult and often tragic relations between Europeans and Africans at ( and even since ) the beginning of the twentieth century . Because its alleged endorsement of racism has ...
... cultural anthropologists , and historians dealing with the difficult and often tragic relations between Europeans and Africans at ( and even since ) the beginning of the twentieth century . Because its alleged endorsement of racism has ...
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... 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 years after Conrad's death . ) Suggestively , the ...
... 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 years after Conrad's death . ) Suggestively , the ...
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... superiority to them ( it does , however , imply a temporary cultural superiority ) . With regard to the Belgians , though , the story seems to endorse a medium racist attitude : the British characters in it , to Introduction ~ 11.
... superiority to them ( it does , however , imply a temporary cultural superiority ) . With regard to the Belgians , though , the story seems to endorse a medium racist attitude : the British characters in it , to Introduction ~ 11.
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 |