TY  - GEN
AU  - Van Hove,Johnny
TI  - Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
SN  - /dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839440377
PY  - 2017///1015
CY  - Bielefeld, Germany
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Congo
KW  - Racism
KW  - Culture
KW  - Neocolonialism
KW  - Malcom X
KW  - Joseph Conrad
KW  - David Van Reybrouck
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - America
KW  - American History
KW  - History of Colonialism
KW  - American Studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25383/1/1004713.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25383/1/1004713.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25383/1/1004713.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28643
ER  -