An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth CenturyMichigan State University Press, 1993 - Počet stran: 352 An Enchanting Darkness: the American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century is more than just another look at racism, cultural bias, and the images that under-gird widely held misconceptions about an entire continent. Going beyond convention, this important new work analyzes the way truisms and stereotypes have perpetuated negative and naive images of Africa and its people. Dennis Hickey and Ken Wylie probe the reasons why such unfortunate views have persisted, even among groups of supposedly well-educated Americans. They examine the concept of the "Noble Savage" and trace its evolution within the media of our popular culture and within the literature produced by scholars. American perceptions of Africa are shown to have been influenced by French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau's ideas, research undertaken by anthropologists Franz Boaz and Melville Herskovits, and by nine decades of pervasive imagery presented by twentieth-century writers like Saul Bellow, Laura Bohannan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Theroux, Maria Thomas, John Updike, and Alice Walker. Finally, An Enchanting Darkness examines the symbolic conventions presented to the American public that also have been manipulated to create counter-myths that are as hollow and destructive as the older shibboleth of Africa as a "dark continent". |
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... example . And , when it comes to a specific branch of scholarship , the task is even more daunting . Nevertheless some patterns do emerge in sil- houette , especially when one looks closely at the popular writing on Amerindians ...
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... example , " was not merely an observation of customs among one " primitive " oceanic folk ; it was , she argued , of universal application , and could henceforth provide the foundation of a thoroughgoing cri- tique of America's ...
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... example , with its assumption that the last Plantagenets were evil incarnate ) , but it is incumbent on historians to say so , whether we are speaking about Shakespeare or some lesser figure . The impressions of Africa conveyed in The ...
... example , with its assumption that the last Plantagenets were evil incarnate ) , but it is incumbent on historians to say so , whether we are speaking about Shakespeare or some lesser figure . The impressions of Africa conveyed in The ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Of Naked Apes and Noble Savages | 7 |
Reflections in a Hall of Mirrors | 29 |
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