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In Search of Brightest Africa : Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820341965
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Search of Brightest AfricaDDC classification:
  • 327.607309/034
LOC classification:
  • DT38.1 -- .J66 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: What Is Africa to Me? -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: In Search of Brightest Africa -- ONE: A Cry from Africa: Victorians, New Women, New Negroes, and Moderns Confront the Dark Continent -- TWO: To Bunco a Yankee: America and the Congo Question -- THREE: Written on the Wall: Pan-African Dreams of African Empires and Republics -- FOUR: To Capture a Vanishing World: Naturalist-Environmentalist Discourses and Displays of Africa -- FIVE: Reel Africa: American Filmmaking and Criticism in Defense of Africa -- CONCLUSION: The Wonders of Africa Brought to America -- Chronology of Events -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface: What Is Africa to Me? -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: In Search of Brightest Africa -- ONE: A Cry from Africa: Victorians, New Women, New Negroes, and Moderns Confront the Dark Continent -- TWO: To Bunco a Yankee: America and the Congo Question -- THREE: Written on the Wall: Pan-African Dreams of African Empires and Republics -- FOUR: To Capture a Vanishing World: Naturalist-Environmentalist Discourses and Displays of Africa -- FIVE: Reel Africa: American Filmmaking and Criticism in Defense of Africa -- CONCLUSION: The Wonders of Africa Brought to America -- Chronology of Events -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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