The Dark Continent
Africa as Female Body in Haggard's Adventure Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Stott (0000-0002-0481-578X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-89 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395364 |
| OpenAlex | W4232757575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 3 |
Rider Haggard's literary career began in the 1880s when public interest in Africa had reached a peak and when he himself had just returned from six years of public service in South Africa, as secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal. Public attention had focused on Africa during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Philip Curtin in The Image ofAfrica (Curtin, 1964) argues that it was Livingstone's report of 1857 of his missionary journey which had captured and retained the public imagination. With the political unrest caused by the first Kaffir wars, then the Zulu war, and the first Boer war whereby Britain was forced to the retrocession of the Transvaal after its annexation three years earlier, public interest was focused on Southern and Eastern Africa rather than Western Africa. Popular magazines of this period, such as the London Illustrated News, catered for public demand with years of continual reporting of savage African life using visual images supplied by travelling artists
Adventure · Ancient history · Annexation · Archaeology · Art history · Colonialism · Feminism · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unrest · Zulu · American and British Literature Analysis · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Short Stories in Global Literature · South African History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
El héroe, el viaje y la construcción de las identidades sociales. Las minas del rey Salomón como modelo
As Europe is to Africa, so is man to woman”
Mapping Victorian Adventure Fiction
Appendix
Theorising translation as a process of ‘cultural repatriation’
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
The Transformation of Cultural Geography
Life, Simple and Heroic”
Re-imagining Africa
Introduction to “Another Vision of Empire. Henry Rider Haggard’s Modernity and Legacy”
New perspectives on H.R. Haggard
On colonial bodies
South African Allegories in Richard Jefferies’s After London; or Wild England (1885)
From the Plant of Life to the Throat of Death
Languages of risk
Refusing ‘Slave Man's Revenge’
A Stranger in the Country of His Birth
Foregrounding Boundaries Between Self and Other in South Africa
This Is How I Win
From Oblivion to Post-History
A good woman in a good country’ or The Essence is in the Pumpkin Alexander McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe Novels as a Case of Postcolonial Nostalgia
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2025 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |