Weary Sons of Conrad: White Fiction Against the Grain of Africas Dark Heart

Weary Sons of Conrad: White Fiction Against the Grain of Africas Dark Heart The recent critical attention devoted to travel writing enacts a logical transition from the ongoing focus on autobiography, subjectivity, and multiculturalism. Travel extends the inward direction of autobiography to consider the journey outward and intersects provocatively with studies of multiculturalism, gender, and subjectivity. Whatever the journey's motive – tourism, study, flight, emigration, or domination – journey changes both the country visited and the self that travels. Weary Sons of Conrad poses the question, how is Africa represented in some late twentieth-century European and North American fiction written by white men? Its contribution is to unearth a rich treasure of such fiction that opposes imperialism and struggles with patriarchy and gender stereotypes. These writers go to battle against the stranglehold of myths about Africa, its lands, and its people, which are deeply embedded in the language itself. The writers struggle for new tongues and original ways of telling their stories but cannot be totally free of history, family, language, and tradition. Written in a lively, accessible style, this book is of great interest to a broad range of readers in the fields of postcolonial literary theory, gender, and cultural and African studies. Autor: Brenda Cooper Wydawnictwo: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Rok wydania: 2002 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 344 Wymiary: 15.5 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780820456829