Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... suggest how different types of approaches to literature may in fact be pursuing quite similar ends . The word imagology refers to the work on national images carried out by the so - called French school of comparative literature ...
... suggest how different types of approaches to literature may in fact be pursuing quite similar ends . The word imagology refers to the work on national images carried out by the so - called French school of comparative literature ...
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... suggests a negative view of think- ing about race , was simply not needed and hence not thought of . The first word with these negative connotations is racialism , listed in the 1987 Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary as ...
... suggests a negative view of think- ing about race , was simply not needed and hence not thought of . The first word with these negative connotations is racialism , listed in the 1987 Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary as ...
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... suggests ) , and in fact those are the sources of most of the supporting examples . This defi- nition , however , would certainly not have satisfactorily described the " racist " attitudes toward Africans on the part of the very small ...
... suggests ) , and in fact those are the sources of most of the supporting examples . This defi- nition , however , would certainly not have satisfactorily described the " racist " attitudes toward Africans on the part of the very small ...
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... suggest , Conrad was by no means alone in thinking in stereotypical ways about other na- tional or ethnic groups , though it should be noted that Conrad's fiction tended in this respect to be subtler and more balanced than that of most ...
... suggest , Conrad was by no means alone in thinking in stereotypical ways about other na- tional or ethnic groups , though it should be noted that Conrad's fiction tended in this respect to be subtler and more balanced than that of most ...
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... suggests that European racism arose during the first great age of world exploration during the Renais- sance as a way for Europeans to explain to themselves their apparently universal military superiority ( i.e. , the superiority of ...
... suggests that European racism arose during the first great age of world exploration during the Renais- sance as a way for Europeans to explain to themselves their apparently universal military superiority ( i.e. , the superiority of ...
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 |