كتاب
Weary sons of Conrad: white fiction against the grain of Africa's dark heart
| العنوان: | Weary sons of Conrad: white fiction against the grain of Africa's dark heart |
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| المؤلفون: | Cooper, Brenda. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Peter Lang, c2002. |
| سنة النشر: | 2002 |
| وصف مادي: | x, 344 p. ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Travel writing across the disciplines Travel writing across the disciplines |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism., American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism., English fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism., American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., English fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism., Literature and society -- English-speaking countries., Race in literature. |
| Subject Person: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Influence. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Africa -- In literature. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | pt. 1. Introduction. Sons of the circus: Orientalist and Africanist writing -- pt. 2. Sons as explorers. "The Niger remained a mystery": fetishes, bodies and books in T. Coraghessan Boyle's Water music ; The anti-quest and the migrating tale: Lawrence Norfolk's The Pope's rhinoceros (and Lemprière's Dictionary) -- pt. 3. Sons and apes. The battered boys of Rice Burroughs: Tarzan and Jane Goodall ; Chimp wars, guerrilla wars, and gender wars: William Boyd's Brazzaville Beach, Will Self's Great apes and Peter Hoeg's The woman and the ape -- pt. 4. Sons as gay. Secret sharing: the closet and the empire ; Out of the closet? Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and Patrick Roscoe's The lost oasis -- pt. 5. Sons of the soil. Crossing the great desert void ; Hybrid landscapes: Adam Thorpe's Pieces of light -- pt. 6. Conclusion. Sons of the century. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm49383466 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8204-5682-9 0-8204-5682-9 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009379776.1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780820456829 0820456829 |
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