"""Exterminate All the Brutes""": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European...

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Sven Lindqvist Joan Tate

"""Exterminate All the Brutes"""

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate

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New Press
01 May 2007

History; General & world history

"""Exterminate All the Brutes"" is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, Sven Lindqvist takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, the author exposes the roots of genocide in Africa via his own journey through the Saharan desert. As Lindqvist shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination""cleansing"" the earth of the so-called lesser racesdeeply informed European colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust.

Chosen as one of the Best Books of 1998 by the New Internationalist, which called it ""a beautifully written integration of criticism, cultural history, and travel writing, underpinned by a passion for social justice,"" ""Exterminate All the Brutes"" is a powerful reckoning with the past and an indispensable contribution to the literature of colonial Africa and European genocide."

By: Sven Lindqvist
Translated by: Joan Tate
Imprint: New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781565843592
ISBN 10: 1565843592
Pages: 179
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for """Exterminate All the Brutes""": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Praise for Sven Lindqvist and Exterminate All the Brutes A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist's astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful. --David Levering Lewis In spare but powerful prose . . . Lindqvist manages to weave together an impressive variety of themes [to] point to the continuity between prejudices and acts separated by continents and centuries. --The Washington Post Lindqvist's disturbing, brilliant work of historical sleuthing deserves to be taken up in a thousand classrooms. --Rob Nixon, Voice Literary Supplement