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	Congo (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Congo is the name of a novel by Michael Crichton.
		The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds in the dense rain forest of Congo.
		The novel starts with an abrupt end to an expedition in the dense forests of Congo when the expedition team is attacked and killed by an unknown foe and all contact with them lost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Congo_(novel) (468 words)

	Congo - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Congo is a name shared by two neighbouring countries in Africa, usually distinguished either by using their full official names or adding their capitals:
		The Republic of the Congo is often known as "Congo-Brazzaville".
		It was once a Belgian colony known as Congo Free State and Belgian Congo, depending on the period.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Congo (394 words)

	Inlibris Bookstore - Poisonwood Bible : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
		This novel brings an influential, powerful, and well written message of the relevance of religion and the potency of racism; once highlighted by Kingsolver, it is impossible to ignore these prevalent issues that still plague the world today.
		Her goal was to highlight the history of the Congo, while narrating the smaller plight of the Price family, and all the issues as the Congo and family interact.
		Kingsolver is a mastermind in the depths of her novel however one critique of the novel is: the prior knowledge required of Congo, because the Price family is thrown into the middle of the Congo, so is the reader.
	www.inlibris.com /bookstore/main.pl?m=1&asin=0060512822 (1961 words)

	Congo (1995) - RUTHLESS REVIEWS: Movies
		Congo is not a great film, nor even an adequate film.
		Of course, the evil corporate hierarchy, the frustration of 250 million American wage-slaves, has a hidden Agenda in all this: They want to find the legendary, "King Saloman's diamond mine," which is now guarded by evil gorillas who eat all trespassers.
		The premise that any American corporation, for example, MCI would be able to hire a private militia to raid an African diamond mine autonomously makes me want a shot of Nyquil as soon as the film begins.
	ruthlessreviews.com /movies/c/congo.html (539 words)

	BRIA(16:2) King Leopold, Heart of Darkness, Belgium, Congo, Rockefeller, Standard Oil, Monopoly, United States v. ...
		But Congo clan chiefs and African Muslim slave traders from upriver were happy to sell their slaves to the Portuguese and other Europeans who transported them to America.
		Of course, the people of the Congo took no part in the Berlin Conference and were unaware that their lives were about to tragically change.
		The Congo people rebelled by ambushing army units, fleeing their villages to hide in the wilderness, and setting the rubber vine forests on fire.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria16_2.html (5715 words)

	The Catastrophist - Ronan Bennett
		Ronan Bennett sets his novel in the recent past, centering it in the Belgian Congo as that country is thrust into independence.
		The similarity to Bennett's native Northern Ireland is striking, and as the author was a well-known political activist one might imagine he planned to use the Congo entirely as allegory.
		There is some sense of the drama going on around him, but with Gillespie always able return to his novel practically unaffected by any events (except for his separation from Inès, about which he whines interminably) it is difficult to appreciate the turmoil and terror of the times.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/bennettr/catast.htm (1974 words)

	Wikinfo \| Congo
		Congo is a name shared by two neighbouring countries in Central Africa, usually distinguished either by using their full official names or adding their capitals:
		It was once the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium, when it was known as the Congo Free State, and later a Belgian colony when it was renamed the Belgian Congo.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Congo (299 words)

	The Joseph Conrad Society of America
		The high ground of the novel is an irony--in the Congo clothes do not make the man. The European exploiters dressed in the very proper tropical whites are savage in behavior while naked man-eaters are restrained in behavior.
		Instead, he suggests that Conrad's novels should be read for their compellingly prescient vision of a postnational world under the sway of global capitalism.
		By foregrounding less familiar novels such as Chance and the neglected Suspense, she emphasises the range and continuity of Conrad's concerns, showing that his later discussions of gender and genre often originate in the period of the 'great' sea tales.
	www.engl.unt.edu /~jgpeters/Conrad/books.html (12581 words)

	English: Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad
		It is now when Marlow enters the Congo and begins his voyage, that he realizes the environment he comes from is not reality, and the only way he is going to discover reality is to keep going up the river...
		As the novel continues, Marlow recognizes that this flaw of not being able to see something for what it is, and in turn, not being able to give it an accurate "label", is indeed "the European way".
		Towards the end of the novel, Marlow is invited by Kurtz's fiancee to go to her house to speak of her beloved Kurtz.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/repce/English/49.htm (3500 words)

	Mennonite Life - March 2001 - Born article
		Ironically, while this novel indicts Western colonialism generally and American foreign policy particularly--alleging that Eisenhower and the CIA orchestrated the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and installed his successor Joseph Mobutu--Kingsolver's liberal sentiment is ultimately not interested in Africa itself, but rather in making Africa the scenic locale for the expression of its own liberal sentiment.
		The weakness of such characterization is unintentionally noted by the novel's own commentary, in a passage narrated by Nathan's daughter Adah, a hemiplegic whose delightful intellectual perversity (nurtured by her love for Emily Dickinson) is manifest in her practice of reading backwards.
		Thus, what is the novel's finest achievement (and it is fine indeed), its multiple-voiced exploration of a missionary family drama, is marred by the caricature of the father.
	www.bethelks.edu /mennonitelife/2001mar/born.php (2450 words)

	Congo (novel): Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Congo is the name of a novel (novel: A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) by Michael Crichton (Michael Crichton: more facts about this subject).
		The novel centers around an expedition (expedition: A journey organized for a particular purpose) searching for diamond (diamond: Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem) s in the dense rain forest (rain forest: A forest with heavy annual rainfall) of Congo (Congo: A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960).
		The movie Congo (Congo: A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960) was based on this novel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/congo_novel (487 words)

	Congo Kinshasa (RDC)
		However, at the turn of the millenium, the authors who have remained in Congo are struggling, whereas many of those who fled for political or economic reasons are moving from strength to strength.
		In 1991 Léonie Abo published her autobiography, a story about the peasant uprising of 1963-1968 and the massacres commited by Mobutu's army, as seen through the eyes of a woman resistance fighter.
		More recently Maguy Rashidi-Kabamba published a novel on immigration, Amba Bongo a novel on refugees, and Justine M'poyo Kasa-Vubu her memoirs in 1997.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /AFLIT/CountryZaireEN.html (677 words)

	The Purdue Exponent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the meantime, Kingsolver is able to depict the struggles of the Africans against their colonial dictators (Belgium, in the Congo’s case).
		She also delves into the fight for independence, the American involvement in murdering the first elected prime minister of the independent Congo and the installation of a puppet prime minister.
		Bible verses and parables are mentioned throughout the novel and serve to emphasize the reason the Prices came to Africa in the first place - to convert the heathen to the true faith.
	www.purdueexponent.org /2000/08/28/entertainment/poison.html (485 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: The Correspondence
		I e-mailed him asking how the communication facilities were out there, thinking I'd risk a phone call, and he e-mailed back that the French shot off a bunch of artillery the night before and knocked out all the landlines, and the satellite phone costs about $7 a minute.
		His new novel is, in some ways, a refreshing throwback to the old baroque school of Southern writing, but with the difference that the fatalism, to which novelists like Faulkner and even Cormac McCarthy were as addicted as they were to whiskey, is absent.
		Jim Lewis: The Congo assignment was more or less fortuitous; I went to Egypt for GQ in July, and when I got back and filed, they asked me where I wanted to go next.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-08-01/books_feature.html (897 words)

	Reader's Guide for King Leopold's Ghost published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Between 1880 and 1920, the population of the Congo was slashed in half: some ten million people were victims of murder, starvation, exhaustion, exposure, disease and a plummeting birth rate.
		The European conquest and plunder of the Congo and the rest of Africa was brutal, but so was the European settlement of North America and, long before that, the conquest of most of Europe by the Romans.
		The “burgeoning hierarchy of imperial rule” in the Congo Free State was, Hochschild writes, reflected in “the plethora of medals” and attendant grades and ranks.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/hochschild_king_leo.shtml (5691 words)

	Review: Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rights to each new novel are quickly optioned, and the resulting film is on the market as soon as ILM can get the special effects done.
		Congo is the fourth adaptation of a Crichton novel in two years (following Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, and Disclosure), all of which performed well at the box office.
		Congo's greatest asset is that it's the only pure monster movie/adventure of the season, and, even obviously flawed as it is, it still fills a niche left vacant by the Crimson Tides, Bravehearts, and Batman Forevers.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/congo.html (611 words)

	CliffsNotes::Heart of Darkness:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Since its publication in Youth, the novel has fascinated numerous readers and critics, almost all of whom regarded the novel as an important one because of the ways it uses ambiguity and (in Conrad’s own words), “foggishness” to dramatize Marlow’s perceptions of the horrors he encounters.
		Notable exceptions who didn’t receive the novel well were the British novelist E. Forster, who disparaged the very ambiguities that other critics found so interesting, and the African novelist Chinua Achebe, who derided the novel and Conrad as examples of European racism.
		In the first half of the novel, Marlow states, “The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach”—but by the end of his journey, he will have peeked beneath “the surface” and discovered the inhumanity of which even men such as the once-upstanding Kurtz are capable.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-4,pageNum-4.html (931 words)

	Amazon.com: Poisonwood Bible : A Novel: Books: Barbara Kingsolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this risky but resoundingly successful novel, Kingsolver leaves the Southwest, the setting of most of her work (The Bean Trees; Animal Dreams) and follows an evangelical Baptist minister's family to the Congo in the late 1950s, entwining their fate with that of the country during three turbulent decades.
		Nathan Price's determination to convert the natives of the Congo to Christianity is, we gradually discover, both foolhardy and dangerous, unsanctioned by the church administration and doomed from the start by Nathan's self-righteousness.
		The disastrous outcome of the forceful imposition of Christian theology on indigenous natural faith gives the novel its pervasive irony; but humor is pervasive, too, artfully integrated into the children's misapprehensions of their world; and suspense rises inexorably as the Price family's peril and that of the newly independent country of Zaire intersect.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060512822?v=glance (3781 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| April 18, 2003 - Book Sense: Writer Nicholas Hershenow was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire ...
		Writer Nicholas Hershenow was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire (Congo) in the 1980s - When we were in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Congo), my wife and I lived in a village that was built around a decaying, but still operating, palm oil mill.
		When we were in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Congo), my wife and I lived in a village that was built around a decaying, but still operating, palm oil mill.
		In a sense, the novel was a dream for me: I was sitting in a room in Idaho with snow piling up outside, recreating Africa out of memory and imagination.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2013143.html (2591 words)

	Congo (1995)
		I don't wanna see no monkey in no gorilla suit." Such was the closing opinion of a fellow moviegoer during a recent showing of Congo, the jungle-based techno-thriller adapted for the screen by John Patrick Shanley from the Michael Crichton novel of the same title.
		Unfortunately, it's not "so bad that it's good." Hence, with not even a future among the stockpile of campy science fiction works, the motion picture in question is itself becoming an endangered species as we speak.
		Congo is about what all these sorts of flicks are about: Greed, adventure, more greed, scientific discovery, yet more greed, some ecological concerns thrown in just for good measure, and then even more greed.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Congo.html (749 words)

	Amazon.com: Congo: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like all his other books, "Congo" suffers from one-dimensional characters, and Crichton has an infuriating habit of referring to females in their twenties as "girls" (would he call a 24 year old male a "boy"?).
		This is a suspense-filled novel with a tight plot driven by science.
		Congo is replete with technical jargon and scientific explanations, ranging from Primatology and Language Functions to Computer Programming and animal mistreatment.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060541830?v=glance (1512 words)

	Indifferent Traveler Gets Dragged Into a Clash in the Congo / Novel's narrator follows his activist lover into turmoil
		Less obvious to some readers are the similarities between the turmoil in the Congo and the conflict in Gillespie's (and Belfast- born Bennett's) native Northern Ireland.
		Those similarities are made explicit when the official report exonerating the soldiers in the shootings outside Houthhoofd's estate claims that the dead had rocks in their pockets, proving that they were rioters.
		The novel is set in Africa, as was Greene's ``The Heart of the Matter,'' and the plot bears a passing resemblance to ``The Comedians.'' Like many of Greene's most effective narrators, Gillespie is a writer, and Bennett's Irishness makes him an outsider among the English in much the way Greene's Catholicism did.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/07/RV14115.DTL (857 words)

	Congo Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novel opens up with a mysterious tone, where Karen Ross witnesses the death of the first expedition in the Congo.
		Karen, whom is an encouraged woman, asks for permission from her stressed-out boss to travel to the Congo in the second expedition.
		Peter was aware of the situation of the dead people in the expedition, any yet he accepts the offer to the Congo in order to increase his knowledge of the lifestyle of the gorillas.
	free.hostdepartment.com /w/wiseguyzt/AR/Congo.htm (559 words)

	Tubaman86's Xanga Site
		The main theme of this novel is the devastation brought by imperialism on those being colonized.
		The fact that the novel starts from the first explorers up the Congo and ends in the mid 1990s gives enough information to tell the whole story behind the tragic events but does not go into so much detail that the reader loses interest.
		One thing about this novel is it was not as graphic as it could have which is a big plus.
	www.xanga.com /Tubaman86 (1941 words)

	ENGL 480 sample proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novel is set in the Congo during the politically volatile 1960s; its five American female narrators relate their experiences of living in the Congo as the country seeks its independence from Belgium.
		She adopts a disparaging view of Western (particularly American) civilisation and its political manipulation and she shows the Congo to be victim of multiple Western abuses.
		It is apparent in light of the critical acclaim Kingsolver’s novel has received that literature dealing with non-Western subjects remains a popular item of literary consumption.
	www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz /postgrad/480proposal.htm (695 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Catastrophist : A Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though at first The Catastrophist, set in the Congo during its bid for independence from Belgium, may seem a far cry from Belfast in the '70s, Bennett uses his hard-won wisdom to examine the role of the artist in a political conflict.
		James Gillespie, a disillusioned Irish historian turned novelist, has arrived in the Congo on the eve of independence, hoping to reunite with his Italian lover, Ines.
		The two had once been passionately involved in Europe, but Ines's job as a journalist took her to the Congo, where her Communist leanings have kept her.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870363 (858 words)

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