http://hdl.handle.net/2440/33585 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:29:21 GMT 2013-05-24T08:29:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77776 Title: Return to Zenda Author: Lloyd, Rosemary Helen Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77776 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77766 Title: A tale of resilience: the history of modern European languages at the University of Adelaide Author: Fornasiero, Frances Jean; West-Sooby, John Norton Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77766 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77248 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. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77248 2007-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/75385 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. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/75385 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z