Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of DarknessUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 |
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... writing at a particular moment in history and " seeing " what he saw through the lens of his own privately lived experience . But individual though Conrad was , he was also , as we all are , inescapably the product of his education and ...
... writing at a particular moment in history and " seeing " what he saw through the lens of his own privately lived experience . But individual though Conrad was , he was also , as we all are , inescapably the product of his education and ...
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... writing , it is readily available in a variety of paperback reprints as well as in at least two critical , casebook - format editions ; it is the principal subject of at least three monographs in English ( not counting this one ) and ...
... writing , it is readily available in a variety of paperback reprints as well as in at least two critical , casebook - format editions ; it is the principal subject of at least three monographs in English ( not counting this one ) and ...
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... writing his novel , the word racism did not exist . The nonexistence of the word does not mean , of course , that the phe- nomenon itself did not exist ; it unquestionably did . But it does mean that people then — even specialized and ...
... writing his novel , the word racism did not exist . The nonexistence of the word does not mean , of course , that the phe- nomenon itself did not exist ; it unquestionably did . But it does mean that people then — even specialized and ...
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... writers of the period . 7 ( For example , the vile German captain in Lord Jim is more than offset by the saintly German merchant , Stein , in the same novel . ) Given the many years — half a lifetime , practically— that Conrad had spent ...
... writers of the period . 7 ( For example , the vile German captain in Lord Jim is more than offset by the saintly German merchant , Stein , in the same novel . ) Given the many years — half a lifetime , practically— that Conrad had spent ...
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... writing " that allowed them to feel superior when they first encountered Africans who had not as yet developed a system of writing . Racism , so this argument runs , is therefore purely a product of social acculturation , having little ...
... writing " that allowed them to feel superior when they first encountered Africans who had not as yet developed a system of writing . Racism , so this argument runs , is therefore purely a product of social acculturation , having little ...
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 |