DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/33585 2013-05-19T20:42:58Z 2013-05-19T20:42:58Z Return to Zenda Lloyd, Rosemary Helen http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77776 2013-05-15T05:30:35Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Title: Return to Zenda Author: Lloyd, Rosemary Helen 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z A tale of resilience: the history of modern European languages at the University of Adelaide Fornasiero, Frances Jean West-Sooby, John Norton http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77766 2013-05-15T04:30:25Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Title: A tale of resilience: the history of modern European languages at the University of Adelaide Author: Fornasiero, Frances Jean; West-Sooby, John Norton 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z The perversity of whiteness: Paule Constant's white spirit as a gendered rewriting of Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness Edwards, Natalie Jean http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77248 2013-04-29T03:30:16Z 2007-12-31T13:30:00Z Title: The perversity of whiteness: Paule Constant's white spirit as a gendered rewriting of Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness Author: Edwards, Natalie Jean Abstract: This article examines the intertextual references between Paule Constant's White Spirit and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I argue that Constant's novel rewrites the European male colonialist's journey from a gendered perspective. The techniques used to achieve this include infusing Conrad's tale with heavily symbolic female characters, with male characters that belie the colonialists' sexual perversion, with animals that take on human characteristics, and with a colonial structure that emphasizes the sexually sordid aspect of empire. The article shows that Constant writes empire as an inherently sexual structure that impacts negatively upon all the characters' psyches, but most significantly upon women; while men suffer psychologically from the sexually perverse colonial society, the quest for whiteness to which the novel's title refers transforms, denigrates and denaturalizes both European and African women. 2007-12-31T13:30:00Z Light-gleams and the uncanny Lloyd, Rosemary Helen http://hdl.handle.net/2440/75385 2013-02-11T23:30:22Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Title: Light-gleams and the uncanny Author: Lloyd, Rosemary Helen Abstract: This article argues that the disconcerting power of realism can be made more accessible to students through the bias of biography. As Virginia Woolf maintains, biography’s own deployment of realism builds on its canny choice s of the facts that suggest and illuminate. As a result, the living reality of biography enables a sharper critical awareness of approaches to literary realism. 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z