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To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo by their own country, 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 Malcolm X, Joseph Conrad, and David Van Reybrouck, he offers a case study of normalized narratives on the "Other" and a stirring wake up call for all contemporary writers on international history and politics.

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• Full title: Congoism - Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
• Author: Johnny Van Hove
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9783837640373
• ISBN: 383764037X
• ID: 16284237
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 147 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2017

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