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  • British Colonial realism in Africa[electronic resource] :inalienable objects, contested domains /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/12
    書名/作者: British Colonial realism in Africa : inalienable objects, contested domains // Deborah Shapple Spillman.
    作者: Spillman, Deborah Shapple.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Realism in literature.
    標題: Colonies in literature.
    標題: British - Intellectual life. - Africa
    標題: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism.
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / African
    標題: Africa - Languages.
    ISBN: 9780230378018 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230378013 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230378001 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230378005 (Cloth)
    內容註: 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 -- --.
    摘要、提要註: How are objects central to the formation of individuals, their communities, and their liberties? What role do objects play as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? Nineteenth-century British authors attempting to transport narrative realism to the colonies confronted such questions directly and indirectly as they struggled to represent competing forms of material investment that characterized colonial and postcolonial life in Africa. Reading works by authors from Joseph Conrad and Mary Kingsley to Anna Howarth and Olive Schreiner against nineteenth-century African essays, folklore, visual arts, and recorded testimonies, this new study considers how conflicts over the material world impacted literary realism in colonial Africa. These conflicts highlight tensions between Victorian and African perceptions of objects and practices of exchange, while directing our attention toward alternate histories and stories yet to be told.
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