Postcolonial Criticism
Subtitle: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780745621814
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; World - Post-Colonial Studies; General; 20th century; Developing countries; History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Literature, Modern; Literatures; Postcolonialism in literature
First sentence: At the time that Heart of Darkness was written much of the Congo region was effectively the personal property of Leopold II, king of Belgium from 1865 to 1909.