Conrad in Africa: New Essays on "Heart of Darkness"
by DE LANGE ADRIAAN M. (ED)Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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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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