Civilizar' Africala herencia de Livingstone en A Burnt-Out Case, de Graham Greene y El sueño del celta, de Mario Vargas Llosa

  1. Beatriz Valverde Jiménez
Journal:
Alfinge: Revista de filología

ISSN: 0213-1854

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 27

Pages: 151-162

Type: Article

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Abstract

In this article the concept of „semiosphere‟, developed by the Russian-Estonian scholar Juri Lotman, is used to examine the relationship between the African and the European communities in the Congo portrayed by Graham Greene in A Burnt-Out Case and by Mario Vargas Llosa in El sueño del celta. With this analysis I will prove that even though both authors denounce the terrible consequences of the European colonization had for the African people, the native communities in the novels are still depicted from a western paternalistic perspective.

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