Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race

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G&S Typesetters PDF proof abjection, 9, 86 –118; and portrait of Jenny Petherbridge, 105, 118, 154. See also Powers of Horror abolitionists, 27 abortion, 156, 164 Acton, Harold, 137 Africa, 3, 82, 126 passim; and African culture, 1, 4, 5, 7, 13; African eyes, 55; and art, 17; in Diary of Lady Anne Clifford, 33, 37, 39, 45, 46; and Diaspora , 128; fertility figures and modernism , 151; “heart of darkness” as breast, 150; intellectuals, 17; at Knole, 33; masks, 55; and National Geographic photos, 134; and Negro anthology, 142; and Pan-Africanism, 31, 136; and revolution, 7; and royal slaves in Oronooko, 33–35; and safaris, 5; and sculpture, 46 passim, 151; and sculpture in Strasbourg, 130; and womanhood, 30, 42; and women writing, 5. See also Nancy Cunard; Negro anthology; George Padmore; A Room of One’s Own; “A Very Fine Negress;” woman; women’s writing African women: body marked for motherhood, 127,150; gazed at, fantasized , fetishized, demonized Westerners , 24, 33–35, under African Eyes, 52. See also Africa; feminism; woman; “A Very Fine Negress” AIDS, 9, 12, 105 Albanian: plight of refugees, 11 alcoholic: Nancy Cunard, 126, 162 Aldington, Richard, 137; caricature of Cunard, 147 Amis, Ben (U.S. black communist), 139 Amritsar: Mutiny, 14, 15, 181 Anand, Mulk Raj, 5, 6, 8, 13, 22, 150 –178, 180; Conversations in Bloomsbury, 181. See also Coolie; Untouchable anthology: as cultural capital, 142 anthropology, 124, 126; postmodern (Leiris), 126, 132 antifascism, 3, 86 –118; fascism, 86 –118. See also Nightwood anti-imperialism, 5. See also A Passage to India; The Waves anti-Semitism, 153 antislavery: arguments, 29; Bill, 27, 71; movement, 25, 28. See also “A Very Fine Negress;” James Stephen (1789–1859) apartheid, 17 Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political , and Thence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery (William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, 1825): feminist tract, 25 Aragon, Louis, 123 Arendt, Hannah. See The Origins of Totalitarianism Arlen, Michael, 4, 150 –178, 164, 165; Armenian writing in England, 7, 22. See also The Green Hat Index 09-R2807-IX 11/3/03 12:46 PM Page 201 G&S Typesetters PDF proof Armenians: Holocaust of a million by Turks, 11; treaty betraying, racism against, 156. See also Mrs. Dalloway Arnold, Matthew, 29; and the word “fetish,” 31. See also Culture and Anarchy; Governor Eyre Aryan: Aryan beast, 96; Cunard as Aryan woman, 162; superman, 89 Asia: Asians, 31; Southern, 5, 150 –178 Associated Negro Press: Cunard as reporter for, 146 Auden, W. H.: manuscript of “Spain” in Cunard Papers, HRHRC, 146 Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil War (political publication, 1937), 123, 180; Cunard’s inclusion of Black authors, 180 avant-garde, 23, 123, 165 Baker, Houston, 144 Baker, Josephine, 84, 166 Bakhtin: and Rabelais, 86 passim; and heteroglossia, 98, 114; and the racial Other, 19 Banana Bottom (Claude McKay), 9, 54 –56, 151; and Bita Plant, 9 Bankhead, Tallulah, 156; in The Green Hat as a play, 165 Banting, John, 133 passim Barnes, Djuna, 1, 4, 20, 22, 79, 86 –118; and English heritage, 8; exile in France as racist and antiSemite , 20; Ladies’ Almanack, 87, 90, 98; Ryder, 90, 92. See also Nightwood barred writing, 80 Basic English, 53 BBC, 18 Beaton, Cecil, 124, 133 Beckett, Samuel, 123, 126, 137, 139; Cunard discovers, 142; Waiting for Godot, 142, 177 Beecham, Sir Thomas, 123 Beer, Gillian, 18 Bell, Quentin, 62, 66, 70 Bell, Vanessa, 50 Behn, Aphra, 32; Oroonoko, 33–35; as prototypical woman writer, 33, 38, 48, 90. See also “A Very Fine Negress” Beloved (Toni Morrison), 30. See also suicide/infanticide Benin bronzes, 54 Benstock, Shari, 93, 147, on Aldington, 147, 148 Berlin. See Nightwood (chapter 4) Better Red (Constance Coiner), ix Bhabha, Homi, 25, 158 bibliophiles: Cunard and Schomburg, 139 biographies: of white explorers, 5. See also white bisexuality, 103, 104. See also Naomi Schor Black, ix, x, 3, 4, 11, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31; American students, 8; Associated Negro Press, 146; Atlantic, 30, 168; blackness, 19; Black studies, 128; castration of black men, 34; erotic, maternal, 24; images of bodies, 5, 33–35; intellectuals, 30; men, 17; “Negro in the Brothel,” 139; people in Britain, 28; phallic Negro, 90; photographs of blacks only in Negro anthology, 128; protest poetry, 137; slaves, 26, 33–35; studies, 30, 120; violence against, 29; white women compared to black slaves, 26; woman’s body, ix; 31; woman’s gender, 25; women, 21, 22...