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British Colonial Realism in Africa Kenneth A. Loparo

British Colonial Realism in Africa By Kenneth A. Loparo

British Colonial Realism in Africa by Kenneth A. Loparo


Summary

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.

British Colonial Realism in Africa Summary

British Colonial Realism in Africa: Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains by Kenneth A. Loparo

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.

About Kenneth A. Loparo

DEBORAH SHAPPLE SPILLMAN isassistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, USA.

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

Additional information

NPB9780230378001
9780230378001
0230378005
British Colonial Realism in Africa: Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains by Kenneth A. Loparo
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-05-04
245
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