The Dark Continent? : Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo /
Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europes image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstra...
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
[2016]
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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.
