Narrating Africa
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Anglo-Zulu Wars
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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Berlin West African Conference
Black Ivory
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British Camp
British imperialism studies
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colonial discourse analysis
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George Henty
Henty's Book
Henty's Heroes
Henty's Novels
Henty's Stories
Henty's Works
hentys
Henty’s Book
Henty’s Heroes
Henty’s Novels
Henty’s Stories
Henty’s Works
Imperial Gothic
juvenile
Juvenile Literature
juvenile literature history
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon’s Mines
Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century
literature
Masterman Ready
Nineteenth Century Public School
nineteenth-century African representation
pluck
postcolonial literary criticism
race and empire scholarship
ROBINSON CRUSOE
sheer
Sierra Leone Experience
slave
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
trade
Victorian adventure novels
Victorian People
works
Young Colonists
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138868755
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire offers a critique of colonialist discourse and focuses on George Henty's novels as a prototype of the literature that emerged with the rise of British imperialism, in an attempt to assess the role of nineteenth-century literature both in the perpetuation of stereotypes vis--vis Africa and in the socialization of young adults. Its approach is postcolonial inasmuch as it breaks traditional disciplinary boundaries by analyzing and critiquing literature within historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts that enable the production, reception, and import of literary texts. Indeed today's cultural, economic, and political hegemony of Europe and the United States over Africa has a legacy deeply rooted in nineteenth-century ideologies of imperialism, colonialism, and race, as well as in repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Thus the image of Africa as the Dark continent, resulting from the activities of the Atlantic Slave Trade and early Victorian explorers and missionaries, won further popularity among Victorians from all walks of life through adventure stories which became one of the vehicles for the dissemination of imperialist ideologies and concept. Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire unveils the legacy, endurance, and impact of colonial stereotyping with these factors in perspective.
