British Colonial realism in Africa : inalienable objects, contested domains
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British Colonial realism in Africa : inalienable objects, contested domains
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Includes bibliograpy p. 225-236
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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