Fordlandia by Greg Grandin

Author:Greg Grandin [Grandin, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Industries, Brazil, Corporate & Business History, Political Science, Fordlândia (Brazil), Automobile Industry, Business, Ford, Rubber plantations - Brazil - Fordlandia - History - 20th century, History, Fordlandia, Fordlandia (Brazil) - History, United States, Rubber plantations, Planned communities - Brazil - History - 20th century, Business & Economics, Latin America, Planned communities, Brazil - Civilization - American influences - History - 20th century, 20th Century, General, South America, Biography & Autobiography, Henry - Political and social views
ISBN: 9780312429621
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER

IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism in general and Belgian brutality in particular. Here, the Rouge River stands in for the Thames, the starting point of Conrad’s tale, and the Ormoc for the Nellie, which carries Marlow to his rendezvous with tropical madness. Any number of Ford agents—Blakeley, for instance, or Oxholm—could double for Kurtz, defying the “whited sepulchre” of Dearborn puritanism and giving in to their lusts.

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