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British Colonial realism in Africa = inalienable objects, contested domains /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	British Colonial realism in Africa/ Deborah Shapple Spillman.
Reminder of title:	inalienable objects, contested domains /
Author:	Spillman, Deborah Shapple.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	Africa - Economic policy - 21st century. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230378018 (electronic bk.)

British Colonial realism in Africa = inalienable objects, contested domains /
Spillman, Deborah Shapple.

British Colonial realism in Africainalienable objects, contested domains /[electronic resource] :Deborah Shapple Spillman. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

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 -- --.

How are objects central to the formation of individuals, their communities, and their liberties? What role do objects play as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? Nineteenth-century British authors attempting to transport narrative realism to the colonies confronted such questions directly and indirectly as they struggled to represent competing forms of material investment that characterized colonial and postcolonial life in Africa. Reading works by authors from Joseph Conrad and Mary Kingsley to Anna Howarth and Olive Schreiner against nineteenth-century African essays, folklore, visual arts, and recorded testimonies, this new study considers how conflicts over the material world impacted literary realism in colonial Africa. These conflicts highlight tensions between Victorian and African perceptions of objects and practices of exchange, while directing our attention toward alternate histories and stories yet to be told.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230378018 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613657169

Source: 567997Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

657339
Africa
--Economic policy--21st century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR468.R42 / S65 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/12

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