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The Dark Continent? : Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andersen, Frits (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic) > In literature.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > History.
Kongo (African people) > Social life and customs.
European literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
European literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • THE CONGO IN PROSE- INTRODUCTION. Life and works: reading Stanley
  • Traveller on global terms
  • Prose: a framework and reading perspective
  • Literary topography of the Congo
  • Anthropoetic narrative and method ; H.M. STANLEY
  • MAGIC AND MARKET. Moving perspective: Through the Dark Continent (1878)
  • Conflicting testimonies: In Darkest Africa (1890)
  • The space of prose: magic and pragmatism ; RED RUBBER
  • TALES OF TERROR. Heart of Darkness in travel literature
  • Atrocity accounts
  • "The Espionage System": red rubber in prose
  • The field: red rubber and Heart of Darkness between Nationalism and world literature ; THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The Congo in travel literature: history and oblivion
  • The Congo in novels: Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul and Urs Widmer
  • The Congo in popular literature: bizarre truths in bizarre stories
  • The Congo, I Presume: anthropoetic narrative ; THE CONGO IN PROSE. Congo literature: a cross-sectional view
  • Place
  • Testimony
  • Atrocity accounts and human rights
  • Oblivion and historical narrative
  • World literature and globalisation.