Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present / Johnny Van Hove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hove, Johnny Van, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

To justify the plundering of todays 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 European counterparts) have been using 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 all contemporary writers on international history and politics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101959

ISBN:

9783839440377

Publisher Number:

http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839440377

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access