1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00051363

Autore

HIGHTOWER, James Robert

Titolo

Topics in Chinese literature outlines and bibliographies / by James Robert Hightower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ( (Mass.), : Harward University Press, 1953

Descrizione fisica

141 p. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

CIN VI

Soggetti

LETTERATURA CINESE - NARRATIVA - DINASTIA MING (1368-1644) - SAGGI CRITICI

Letteratura cinese - Narrativa - Dinastia Qing (1644-1911) - Storia e critica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910315224303321

Autore

Van Hove Johnny <p>Johnny Van Hove, Agency for the Development of Professional Education " Berlin, Germany </p>

Titolo

Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present / Johnny Van Hove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017

ISBN

9783839440377

3839440378

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Histoire

Classificazione

NK 4380

Disciplina

967.51

Soggetti

United States

Congo

History

Racism

Culture

Neocolonialism

Malcom X

Joseph Conrad

David Van Reybrouck

Cultural History

Postcolonialism



America

American History

History of Colonialism

American Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Content    5 Acknowledgements    7 Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on the Congo: Re-Reading Central West Africa    9 First Chapter. From Slave to Savage: The Realization of a Topos (1800-1885)    53 Second Chapter. Between Art and Atrocity: Epistemic Multiplication and Standardization (1885-1945)    135 Third Chapter. Revolution, Reform, Reproduction: Strategies and Limitations for Change (1945-Present)    243 Conclusion. Doing Damage, or Re-Writing Central West Africa    303 References    319

Sommario/riassunto

To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth for the first time, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals (and their influential European counterparts) have been using the Congo in similar fashions for their own goals. Analyzing intellectuals as diverse as W.E.B. Du Bois, Joseph Conrad, and David Van Reybrouck, the book offers a theorization of Central West Africa, a case study of normalized narratives on the "Other", and a stirring wake up call for all contemporary writers on international history and politics.