Sentences with phrase «noble savagery»

The exhibition critiques the fallacy inherent in the opposing discourses of colonial - era «noble savagery» as encapsulated in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (that African nature is «something monstrous and free»); and post-colonial populism which espouses the ideal of a natural world in Africa as a Paradise Lost.

Ashley is a troubling character not because she's a dingbat, but because she might not be a dingbat — and Madeleine's quest to bring a disadvantaged southern artist into the literati spotlight is mired in problems with exploitation and a system of patronage that sees virtue (for themselves or their subjects) in noble savagery.

Not exact matches

Fittingly, the two series explore the contradictory narratives of colonial - era «noble - savagery» and post-colonial populism, both of which the artist claims, «forge artificial images of nature, the hiding place of the state's violence.»