Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... novel rather than a sociological treatise ; only in relation to its aesthetic significance can real social and intellectual - historical meaning be established . Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel ...
... novel rather than a sociological treatise ; only in relation to its aesthetic significance can real social and intellectual - historical meaning be established . Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel ...
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... novel Heart of Darkness . I make no apologies for the omission because this task has already been admirably performed by Anthony Fothergill and Robert Burden . Nevertheless , though I have not systematically reviewed and summarized ...
... novel Heart of Darkness . I make no apologies for the omission because this task has already been admirably performed by Anthony Fothergill and Robert Burden . Nevertheless , though I have not systematically reviewed and summarized ...
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... novel in the language " ( 980 ) . An effective way of assessing the 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 ...
... novel in the language " ( 980 ) . An effective way of assessing the 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 ...
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... novel envisioning ( and also a novel revisioning ) of those experiences in the medium of fiction . And because Conrad was able to envision Africa so effectively , we share in that vision ; we too have our part in envisioning and ...
... novel envisioning ( and also a novel revisioning ) of those experiences in the medium of fiction . And because Conrad was able to envision Africa so effectively , we share in that vision ; we too have our part in envisioning and ...
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... novel almost twice as long as his original estimate . But even despite the considerable increase in bulk and Conrad's sometime trepidation about its possible reception , " The Heart of Darkness " had no difficulty in meeting with ...
... novel almost twice as long as his original estimate . But even despite the considerable increase in bulk and Conrad's sometime trepidation about its possible reception , " The Heart of Darkness " had no difficulty in meeting with ...
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 |
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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 |