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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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Keywords
- America
- American History
- American Studies
- Congo
- Cultural history
- Culture
- David Van Reybrouck
- History
- History / United States
- History of Colonialism
- History of the Americas
- Humanities
- Joseph Conrad
- KUnlatched
- Malcom X
- Neocolonialism
- Postcolonialism
- Racism
- Regional & national history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
- United States
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DOI: 10.14361/9783839440377Editions
