Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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Página xi
... 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.
... 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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... often 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.
... often 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
... example , in the foregoing example of positive " barbarian " stereotypes there is implicit a negative stereotype , which has been temporarily reversed for ironic effect . Such accompanying or implicit negative stereotypes are sometimes ...
... example , in the foregoing example of positive " barbarian " stereotypes there is implicit a negative stereotype , which has been temporarily reversed for ironic effect . Such accompanying or implicit negative stereotypes are sometimes ...
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... example — or the specialized and highly trained pro- fessional equivalents of the sociologists and anthropologists of a hun- dred years earlier — are convinced that such a phenomenon as race does not exist in any biologically valid ...
... example — or the specialized and highly trained pro- fessional equivalents of the sociologists and anthropologists of a hun- dred years earlier — are convinced that such a phenomenon as race does not exist in any biologically valid ...
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... examples . This defi- nition , however , would certainly not have satisfactorily described the " racist " attitudes ... example cited for 1938 ) accepts Jews as belonging to a distinct race.' Here we encounter one of the most important ...
... examples . This defi- nition , however , would certainly not have satisfactorily described the " racist " attitudes ... example cited for 1938 ) accepts Jews as belonging to a distinct race.' Here we encounter one of the most important ...
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 |
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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 |