Penetrating critiques : emasculated empire and Victorian identity in Africa /
"Tracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts rangi...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press
[2020]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv19j75fw |
Mục lục:
- Introduction: Bodies/spaces/texts - British masculinity and the failure of colonial efficacy
- Part I: Ruptures in adventure Romance. Permeable boundaries : violence and fantasy in Zululand
- H. Rider Haggard's inversions : vulnerability and the narrative volatility of imperial romance
- Part II: Gothic penetrations. Transgression and loss : General Gordon and gothic imagination
- Marsh's perforations : desire, imperial decay, and the narrative instability of The beetle
- Part III: Modernist dissolutions. Bodily disintegrations : forensic exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone
- Expanding darkness : narrative complicity
- Conclusion.