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Envisioning Africa : Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness /

For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Fir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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