British Colonial Realism in Africa

1. Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism
Deborah Shapple Spillman

2. Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Deborah Shapple Spillman

3. The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden
Deborah Shapple Spillman

4. Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa
Deborah Shapple Spillman

5. Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm

Deborah Shapple Spillman

6. Coda
Deborah Shapple Spillman

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, African Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory