Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Sunum, ss.27, 2007
Sven Lindqvist’s ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, is a travel narrative that could also be read as a history of the nineteenth century colonial enterprise. The author’s travel into the heart of Sahara serves as a frame to his historical research that traces the roots of imperialism and racism in Western thought and practice. Hence, Lindqvist’s geographical and linear movements in space are subtexts to a journey backwards in time, a journey that is further enhanced by brief introspective memories of childhood and hallucinatory, nightmarish visions.
Lindqvist’s text further focuses on primarily Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and other (travel) narratives and by weaving these texts into his own, reveals the imperialist and racist discourses of the nineteenth century, which reach their culmination in the holocaust. This paper proposes to discuss the ways in which Lindqvist’s text is informed by a number of nineteenth and twentieth century texts that reveal the imperialistic discourse and the post-colonial stance.