Obrazy Afryki i Afrykanów w oczach europejskich podróżników z końca XIX stulecia
Images of Africa and Africans as Seen by European Travelers from the End of the Nineteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: The authors analyse nineteenth-century European and in particular Polish narrations concerning the perception of Africa and its inhabitants. Their specific feature is ambivalence in the demonization and, at the same time, idealisation or aestheticization of the population of this continent, as well as the contrast between the Africans and the white “protagonist”, featured in narrative forms typical for European culture. Polish “images” of Africa thus do not differ significantly from their European counterparts.

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