TY - BOOK AU - Brenda Cooper PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Weary Sons of Conrad T2 - White Fiction Against the Grain of Africa's Dark Heart UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094577 N2 - Weary Sons of Conrad poses the question, how is Africa represented in some late twentieth-century European and North American fiction written by white men? Its contribution is to unearth a rich treasure of such fiction that opposes imperialism and struggles with patriarchy and gender stereotypes. These writers go to battle against the stranglehold of myths about Africa, its lands, and its people, which are deeply embedded in the language itself. The writers struggle for new tongues and original ways of telling their stories but cannot be totally free of history, family, language, and tradition. Written in a lively, accessible style, this book is of great interest to a broad range of readers in the fields of postcolonial literary theory, gender, and cultural and African studies. KW - gender stereotypes, family, tradition, patriarchy, imperialism LA - English ER -