E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
British Colonial Realism in Africa
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-37801-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains
E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-230-37801-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.
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List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Heart of Darkness The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in The Story of an African Farm Coda Notes Bibliography Index