‘Primitive Man’ and Media Time in H.M. Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent

Murray, Brian

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“…European travellers were rarely "clear-minded" in encountering local hosts, but rather tended to be "'out of their minds' with extreme fatigue, fear, delusions of grandeur" (Fabian 2000, 3). 5 For analysis of Stanley's Through the Dark Continent and How I Found Livingstone, see also Murray (2013aMurray ( , 2013b. 6 The development of east African Christian missions is examined in Sundkler and Steed (2000, 510-561).…”

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A romance of slavery: exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’sMy Kalulu

Livingstone

2017

Studies in Travel Writing

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Crucial to the Victorian exploration of Africa were the books that travellers wrote on their return. The certifying publication, contributing to geographical knowledge, was integral to the claim to be an "explorer". Yet as scholars have examined the literary culture of exploration, they have largely ignored the body of fiction written by various well-known travellers of sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave (1873), a romance by the most prominent Victorian explorer author, Henry Morton Stanley. It reads the novel as an ambivalent abolitionist Bildungsroman and as an imaginative cartography, which maps eastern Africa as spaces of violence requiring outside intervention. The essay also argues that explorer fiction should be regarded as a form of travel writing. My Kalulu is a document of cultural encounter emerging from the circumstances of expeditionary travel, which provides a striking disclosure of the Arab-African transregional caravan system. As an imaginative means of mediating the travel experience, moreover, Stanley's fiction catered for sentiments and desires that had little place in the conventional travelogue.

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A romance of slavery: exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’sMy Kalulu

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Humans, among Other Classical Animals

Clements

2021

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This book considers the question of how studying Classics can be relevant at the present moment of environmental and existential crisis. In a series of encounters from the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, it explores an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology’s Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial—and often deleterious—role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include, as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need.

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Humans, Among Other Classical Animals

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‘Primitive Man’ and Media Time in H.M. Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent

Cited by 11 publications

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A romance of slavery: exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’sMy Kalulu

A romance of slavery: exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’sMy Kalulu

Humans, among Other Classical Animals

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