Deborah Shapple's British Colonial Realism in Africa: Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains (review)

Authors

Hamish Dalley, Daemen CollegeFollow

Department

English

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Source

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Publication Date

2013

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

49

Last Page

50

Abstract

Excerpt:

Since the publication of Edward W. Said’s Culture and Imperialism in 1994, postcolonial literary critics have usually treated nineteenth-century European fiction as ideologically and imaginatively complicit with the major powers’ attempts to occupy, control, and reorganise distant territories. Deborah Shapple Spillman’s British Colonial Realism in Africa adds weight and nuance to this argument. She demonstrates how late nineteenth-century colonial realist texts—both literary and ethnographic—drew upon structures of thought that allowed unfamiliar peoples to be subsumed within Eurocentric world views.

Comments

© 2016 Hamish Dalley

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Recommended Citation

Dalley, H. (2013). Deborah Shapple's British Colonial Realism in Africa: Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains (review). Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 8(2), 49-50.