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Weary Sons of Conrad
Brenda Cooper
其他書名
White Fiction Against the Grain of Africa's Dark Heart
出版
Peter Lang
, 2002
主題
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & Ethnicity
ISBN
0820456829
9780820456829
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1y9aAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"Is it possible for European and North American men to depict Africa in a wise and non-exploitative manner?" That's the question Cooper (African studies, U. of Cape Town, South Africa) hopes to answer in her examination of writers whose opposition to racism, the nature of imperialism, and gender stereotypes make them "weary" inheritors of the legacy of Joseph Conrad. She borrows concepts and methodologies from Said's Orientalism, postmodernism, Lacanian theory, and other areas, rejecting a unified approach. Among the works she examines are Adam Thorpe's Pieces of Light, Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library, Patrick Roscoe's The Lost Oasis, William Boyd's Brazzaville Beach, Will Self's Great Apes, Peter Hoeg' s The Woman and the Ape, and Lawrence Norfolk's The Pope's Rhinoceros. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
