Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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Página ix
... later 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.
... later 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
... importance of the aesthetic dimension in Heart of Darkness is to ask ourselves whether the novel would have had the same impact on our thinking about racism and imperialism in Africa if Conrad had framed his ideas and impressions on ...
... importance of the aesthetic dimension in Heart of Darkness is to ask ourselves whether the novel would have had the same impact on our thinking about racism and imperialism in Africa if Conrad had framed his ideas and impressions on ...
Página xi
... important such identity . Why this should be so is not entirely clear even to those who have made it their business to find out , usually formulating their ( often less than wholly adequate ) responses in a mixture of anthropological ...
... important such identity . Why this should be so is not entirely clear even to those who have made it their business to find out , usually formulating their ( often less than wholly adequate ) responses in a mixture of anthropological ...
Página xii
... important to those of us who inhabit ( either temporarily or more or less permanently ) literary academia , grouped as we are in departments or faculties traditionally defined along strictly racial or national lines ( e.g. , English ...
... important to those of us who inhabit ( either temporarily or more or less permanently ) literary academia , grouped as we are in departments or faculties traditionally defined along strictly racial or national lines ( e.g. , English ...
Página xiii
... its own journal , European Studies , under the editorship of Joep Leerssen and others . The idea of a national stereotype , it is important to remember , differs from that of national character in that the former makes Preface ~ xiii.
... its own journal , European Studies , under the editorship of Joep Leerssen and others . The idea of a national stereotype , it is important to remember , differs from that of national character in that the former makes Preface ~ xiii.
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 |