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

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Valverde Jiménez, Beatriz
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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2015
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Alfinge: Revista de filología ISSN 0213-1854 Nº 27, 2015, pags. 151-162
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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.