Congoism : : Congo discourses in the United States from 1800 to the present / / Johnny Van Hove.
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 for the first time, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals (and their influential Eur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histoire (Transcript (Firm)) ;
Volume 121. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Shifting Perspectives on the Congo: Re-Reading Central West Africa 9 First Chapter. From Slave to Savage: The Realization of a Topos (1800-1885) 53 Second Chapter. Between Art and Atrocity: Epistemic Multiplication and Standardization (1885-1945) 135 Third Chapter. Revolution, Reform, Reproduction: Strategies and Limitations for Change (1945-Present) 243 Conclusion. Doing Damage, or Re-Writing Central West Africa 303 References 319