Congoism
Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
Author(s)
Van Hove, Johnny
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101959Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
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 StudiesDOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839440377ISBN
9783839440377OCN
1015958356Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2017-10-15Classification
History of the Americas