The Village in the Jungle
An uncolonial novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9002578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Glendinning (Independent Scholar, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-18 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989414558130 |
| OpenAlex | W2318779737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article offers a biographical account of the emergence of The Village in the Jungle, and focuses on Leonard Woolf’s internal conflicts, or deep “psychic archaeology”, at the time of writing the novel. It suggests that the novel’s unique features of empathy and close observation — weighed in relation both to Woolf’s oeuvre, and to colonial writing more generally — emerged out of a special time in his life. He worked through his ambivalences about empire, and about marrying Virginia, through transmuting into narrative form his own closely observed and often already conflicted reports on his experiences as a colonial officer
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Empathy · Empire · Jungle · Literature · Narrative · Psychic · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |