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Congoism: Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present

Congoism: Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present

Hove, Johnny Van

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Series: Histoire

Literary CriticismGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 383764037X
ISBN13: 9783837640373
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Jan 16 2018
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals (and their influential European counterparts) have used the Congo in similar fashions for their own goals. Analyzing intellectuals as diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph Conrad, and David Van Reybrouck, the book offers a theorization of Central West Africa, a case study of normalized narratives on the Other, and a stirring wake-up call for contemporary writers on international history and politics.

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