04691nam 22009135 450 991096624330332120180829122714.09786613657169978128068023612806802379780230378018023037801310.1057/9780230378018(CKB)2560000000080486(EBL)931742(OCoLC)795120161(SSID)ssj0000667771(PQKBManifestationID)11391351(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667771(PQKBWorkID)10684562(PQKB)11761707(DE-He213)978-0-230-37801-8(MiAaPQ)EBC931742(Perlego)3503132(EXLCZ)99256000000008048620151201d2012 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritish Colonial Realism in Africa Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains /by Deborah Shapple SpillmanLondon :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2012.1 online resource (258 p.)Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and CultureDescription based upon print version of record.9781349350933 1349350931 9780230378001 0230378005 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism; 1 Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 1 Ethnographic Doubling; 2 Of Trifles and Trade: Conrad's Ethnography of Colonialism; 3 Authenticity on the Market, an Afterword; 2 The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden; 1 If Objects Could Speak, ""many a wild story the handles of your table knives could tell""; 2 Out of England: Objects and Others; 3 Not ""an object in the midst of other objects""3 Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa1 Collecting Cape Colony Life; 2 Specimens and Curiosities in Carey-Hobson's The Farm in the Karoo; 3 Outside the Realist Collection: Reckless Generosity and Other Notions of Expenditure; 4 Curses and Gifts in Anna Howarth's Karoo Novels; 4 Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Colonial South African; 2 Schreiner's Grotesque Realism; 3 Histories and ""Bushman"" Painters; Coda; Bibliography; IndexWhat 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.Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and CultureLiterature, Modern-19th centuryLiterature-PhilosophyBritish literatureAfrican literatureEthnologyCulture-Study and teachingNineteenth-Century Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/821000Literary Theoryhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/812000British and Irish Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/833000African Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/829000Cultural Anthropologyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411060Cultural Theoryhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411130Literature, Modern-19th century.Literature-Philosophy.British literature.African literature.Ethnology.Culture-Study and teaching.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Literary Theory.British and Irish Literature.African Literature.Cultural Anthropology.Cultural Theory.820.9/12SOC002010LIT004120LIT004010bisacshSpillman Deborah Shapple1792196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966243303321British Colonial Realism in Africa4330412UNINA