Racial extinction and regeneration: representation of North Africa in the factual and fictional writings of Grant Allen

Mohd Ramli, Aimillia (2015) Racial extinction and regeneration: representation of North Africa in the factual and fictional writings of Grant Allen. In: One Day Conference on Africa (ICAFRICA2015), 7th Dec. 2015, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Today Grant Allen is known chiefly for two things: first, as an evolutionist, and second, as the best-selling writer of the “New Women” novel The Woman Who Did (1895). What remains less well-known are his writings that incorporate evolutionary theory with a major motif in late nineteenth-century English literature, namely a desire to feature the racial “other” within the European worldview. The objective of this paper is to explore his depictions of North Africans in light of his engagement with issues connected to late nineteenth-century racial discourse: degeneration, extinction and regeneration. It highlights his contributions to the racial discourse circulating throughout the nineteenth century with regards to the Kabyles, a sub-division of the Berbers, as the long-lost descendants of the Romans who had formerly conquered North Africa.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Papers)
Additional Information:	2219/49389
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Evolutionary Theory Grant Allen Novelist North Africa “Kabyle Myth”
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr. Aimillia Mohd Ramli
Date Deposited:	12 May 2016 09:01
Last Modified:	12 May 2016 09:01
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/49389

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