Weary Sons of Conrad : White Fiction Against the Grain of Africa's Dark Heart
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0820456829
ISBN-13
9780820456829
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2002
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
488 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: from c 1900 -
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The recent critical attention devoted to travel writing enacts a logical transition from the ongoing focus on autobiography, subjectivity, and multiculturalism. Travel extends the inward direction of autobiography to consider the journey outward and intersects provocatively with studies of multiculturalism, gender, and subjectivity. Whatever the journey''s motive – tourism, study, flight, emigration, or domination – journey changes both the country visited and the self that travels.
Weary Sons of Conrad poses the question, how is Africa represented in some late twentieth-century European and North American fiction written by white men? Its contribution is to unearth a rich treasure of such fiction that opposes imperialism and struggles with patriarchy and gender stereotypes. These writers go to battle against the stranglehold of myths about Africa, its lands, and its people, which are deeply embedded in the language itself. The writers struggle for new tongues and original ways of telling their stories but cannot be totally free of history, family, language, and tradition. Written in a lively, accessible style, this book is of great interest to a broad range of readers in the fields of postcolonial literary theory, gender, and cultural and African studies.
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