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Envisioning Africa
Author: Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0813149754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of Darkness is a 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 by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account. Firchow uses a framework of imagology to examine how national, ethnic, and racial images are portrayed in the text, differentiating the idea of a national stereotype from that of national character. He believes that what Conrad saw personally in Africa should not be confused with the Africa he describes in the novel; Heart of Darkness is instead an envisioning and a revisioning of Conrad's experiences in the medium of fiction.
Heart of Darkness (Fifth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0393623432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students have become intensely interested in reading Conrad—largely because of this excellent work.” —Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. “Textual History and Editing Principles” provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness. - Background and source materials on colonialism and the Congo, nineteenth-century attitudes toward race, Conrad in the Congo, and Conrad on art and literature. - Fifteen illustrations. - Seven contemporary responses to the novella along with eighteen essays in criticism—ten of them new to the Fifth Edition, including an entirely new subsection on film adaptations of Heart of Darkness. - A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography.
Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Author: Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2012-03-23
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 073776564X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling volume examines Joseph Conrad's life and writings, with a specific look at key ideas related to Heart of Darkness. The text discusses a variety of topics, including the evil pettiness behind colonial bureaucracy; facing colonialism's racial divide; the relationship between Victorian ethics, new science, and colonialism; and modern views of colonialism, including colonialism in North African countries and multinational corporate abuse in India.
The Secret Agent
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0486114724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of Greenwich Observatory in this masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism.
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1349266221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking about literature in relation to history. This study explains the development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for the theories is explored and the controversial debates about their validity in literary studies are discussed.
The Casement Report
Author: Roger Casement
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 3734043476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780896080904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa media and the role of the media in misreporting these policies.
Colonialism as Civilizing Mission
Author: Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1843310910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInherent in colonialism was the idea of self-legitimation, the most powerful tool of which was the colonizer's claim to bring the fruits of progress and modernity to the subject people. In colonial logic, people who were different because they were inferior had to be made similar - and hence equal - by civilizing them. However, once this equality had been attained, the very basis for colonial rule would vanish. Colonialism as Civilizing Mission explores British colonial ideology at work in South Asia. Ranging from studies on sport and national education, to pulp fiction to infanticide, to psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Union Square Press
Published: 2023-09-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781435172319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Charles Marlow travels to Africa to serve as steamboat pilot for an ivory-trading company, he learns he is to rendezvous with Kurtz, a trading-post agent held in high regard. But the deeper Marlow penetrates into the jungle, the grimmer the assessments of Kurtz become. Described by Conrad himself as "something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa," Heart of Darkness has long been regarded as a powerful appraisal of the fragility of civilization and the consequences of imperialism. This collection includes another five of Conrad's incomparable tales of adventure, including "The Secret Sharer," "Youth," and "Typhoon."
