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oapen-20.500.12657-253832021-11-15T08:21:57Z Congoism Van Hove, Johnny History United States Congo History Racism Culture Neocolonialism Malcom X Joseph Conrad David Van Reybrouck Cultural History Postcolonialism America American History History of Colonialism American Studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas 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. 2019-03-27 23:55 2020-03-17 03:00:33 2020-04-01T10:36:50Z 2020-04-01T10:36:50Z 2017-10-15 book 1004713 OCN: 1015958356 9783839440377 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25383 eng application/pdf n/a 1004713.pdf transcript Verlag http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839440377 101959 http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839440377 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839440377 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bielefeld, Germany 101959 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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