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Envisioning Africa
Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account. Firchow uses a framework of imagology to examine how national, ethnic, and racial images are portrayed in the text, differentiating the idea of a national stereotype from that of national character. He believes that what Conrad saw personally in Africa should not be confused with the Africa he describes in the novel; Heart of Darkness is instead an envisioning and a revisioning of Conrad's experiences in the medium of fiction.
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Reviews
"Firchow's research is exact and interesting. . . . Offers a cautionary note against reductive readings by demonstrating the interplay of contexts operative in all such acts of criticism."—Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
"Successfully calls into question what many interpretations of Conrad's attitudes toward racism and imperialism distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account."—English Literature in Transition
"A thorough investigation of Heart of Darkness and its historical, cultural, and biographical context."—Modern Fiction Studies
"A work of impressive scholarship."—Research in African Literatures
"Will be essential for Conrad scholars and a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in literary polemics and/or late 19th-century European colonial activities in central Africa."—Virginia Quarterly Review
"An energetic and expansive attempt to reassess Conrad's attitudes toward race and imperialism."—Year's Work in English Studies
"Firchow's magisterial study should be required reading for everybody embroiled in the post-Achebe and heated postcolonial critical debate of the last tow decades."—Yearbook of English Studies
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Other Titles by Peter Edgerly Firchow
Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Murdoch
Strange Meetings
Other Titles in LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel
Winter Fruit
The Religious Sublime