Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... and 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.
... and 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
... mind when dealing with its other , more topical aspects , such as its supposed racism or imperialism . It is , after all , not primarily because of its concern with racism and imperialism but because of its great aesthetic power that it ...
... mind when dealing with its other , more topical aspects , such as its supposed racism or imperialism . It is , after all , not primarily because of its concern with racism and imperialism but because of its great aesthetic power that it ...
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... as you can . His legs are long ; his mind is slow ; His hair is lank and made of tow . II And here we have the Alpine Race . Oh ! What a broad and foolish face ! His skin is of a dirty yellow . He is 6 ~ Envisioning Africa.
... as you can . His legs are long ; his mind is slow ; His hair is lank and made of tow . II And here we have the Alpine Race . Oh ! What a broad and foolish face ! His skin is of a dirty yellow . He is 6 ~ Envisioning Africa.
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... mind that for Conrad all of these words ( and where there were as yet no words , the corresponding concepts ) did not convey the same meaning ( s ) to him as they do to us . As far as he was concerned , race included ethnicity and ...
... mind that for Conrad all of these words ( and where there were as yet no words , the corresponding concepts ) did not convey the same meaning ( s ) to him as they do to us . As far as he was concerned , race included ethnicity and ...
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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 |