Conrad in Africa: New Essays on "Heart of Darkness"

by DE LANGE ADRIAAN M. (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780880339933
• ISBN10: 0880339934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

A multidisciplinary and international collection of essays, this volume contains contributions by writers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and South Africa. They employ a variety of methodological approaches, from detailed archival schoarship to theoretical perspectives on textuality and discursivity. Topics include the development of narrative voice in "Heart of Darkness"; the relationship between fictionality and missionary discourse; the notion of race in Conrad's work; and "Heart of Darkness" in contemporary classroom practice in European and South African contexts.

Table of Contents

Attie de Lange: Introduction	p. 1
Should We Read "Heart of Darkness?"	p. 21
The Readability of Conrad's Legacy: Narrative, Semantic and Ethical Navigations into and out of "Heart of Darkness"	p. 41
Three Voices of Conrad's Narrative Journey	p. 67
The Language of Atrocity: Representing the Congo of Conrad and Casement	p. 85
"A Troupe of Mimes": Conrad, Casement and the Politics of Identification	p. 107
Joseph Conrad and General Booth's In Darkest England and The Way Out: Mapping the Discourses of England and Empire	p. 129
"Mine is the Speech that cannot be Silenced": Confession and Testimony in "Heart of Darkness"	p. 153
Alternative Narrative Modes for "Heart of Darkness"	p. 177
Seductions of the Word: Conrad's Kurtz, Soyinka's Professor	p. 195
"An Outpost of Progress": The Case of Henry Price	p. 211
Becoming Other, or Not: Pre-Conradiana and Resistance to It in Southern Africa	p. 233
The Violence of the Canons: A Comparison between Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland	p. 253
"Race" and Reading: A Study of Psychoanalytic Criticisms of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"	p. 271
The Rescue: Conrad, Achebe, and the Critics	p. 299
Achebe and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness": A Reassessment of African Postcolonialism in the Era of the African Renaissance	p. 313
Agency and Mediation in Two Discourses of Imperialism: "Heart of Darkness" and The Expedition to the Baobab Tree	p. 331
Entering "Heart of Darkness" from a Post-colonial Perspective: Teaching Notes	p. 355
Making Conrad Work: "Heart of Darkness," Teaching and Advocacy in Tertiary English Studies in South Africa	p. 373
Straight from the Heart	p. 397
Index of Non-Fictional Names	p. 415
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