Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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Página ix
... especially when , after due consideration , I have reached quite different conclusions . As anyone engaged in the task of reevaluating Heart of Darkness after almost a century of intense and very diverse literary response must realize ...
... especially when , after due consideration , I have reached quite different conclusions . As anyone engaged in the task of reevaluating Heart of Darkness after almost a century of intense and very diverse literary response must realize ...
Página xii
... especially women — Hall cites Cassandra and Polyxena among others — being deliberately given " Hellenic " virtues in measures equaling or even exceeding those of comparable Greek characters , apparently in much the same way ( and for ...
... especially women — Hall cites Cassandra and Polyxena among others — being deliberately given " Hellenic " virtues in measures equaling or even exceeding those of comparable Greek characters , apparently in much the same way ( and for ...
Página xiii
... especially the latter , chiefly because it views them as more or less deeply implicated in the very stereotypes they supposedly set out to examine . This is not to say , however , that all contemporary work along imagological lines is ...
... especially the latter , chiefly because it views them as more or less deeply implicated in the very stereotypes they supposedly set out to examine . This is not to say , however , that all contemporary work along imagological lines is ...
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... especially English ) canonical literature , critical attention has focused chiefly on the novel's treatment of Africans and their exploitation by white imperial administrators . Now , at the close of the twentieth century , for all of ...
... especially English ) canonical literature , critical attention has focused chiefly on the novel's treatment of Africans and their exploitation by white imperial administrators . Now , at the close of the twentieth century , for all of ...
Página 5
... especially relevant here , for in the supporting examples reference is made to a " great Hellen [ Hellenic ] race " and to the " whole German race . " These last senses of the word race are no longer current ; by now they have been ...
... especially relevant here , for in the supporting examples reference is made to a " great Hellen [ Hellenic ] race " and to the " whole German race . " These last senses of the word race are no longer current ; by now they have been ...
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 |