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In Conrad’s Footsteps: Critical Approaches to Africanist Travel Writing
Author(s) -
Burroughs Robert
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00365.x
Subject(s) - travel writing , literature , linguistics , history , psychology , art , philosophy
Travel writing about Central Africa in English reverberates with the language of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . This essay considers how that canonical text, in shaping twentieth‐century travellers’ understandings of Central Africa and the travel genre, also shapes literary critics’ understandings of the same subjects.
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