British Colonial Realism in Africa - Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains

Informationen zum Autor DEBORAH SHAPPLE SPILLMAN is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, USA. Klappentext What 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. Zusammenfassung What 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, Deborah Shapple Spillman, Deborah Shapple Spillman
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781349350933
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35093-3
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, African Literature