An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa
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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe – a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher – looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa, but in which Africans appear only as onlookers or as indistinguishable "savages". Dismissing the prevailing portrayal of Joseph Conrad as a liberal hero whose anti-imperialist views insulated him from significant criticism, Achebe re-cast the Polish author as a "bloody racist" in an analysis so cogent it changed the way in which his discipline looked not only at Conrad, but also at all works with settings indicative of racial conflict.

The creative contribution of Achebe's essay lies in delving far beneath the surface of Conrad's novel; he not only generated new and highly influential hypotheses about the author's modes of thought and motivations, but also redefined the entire debate over Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", and now falls into the class of "permanent literature", Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely – or criticize its author.

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Publisher
Macat Library
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351351959
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. WAYS IN TO THE TEXT
  6. SECTION 1: INFLUENCES
  7. SECTION 2: IDEAS
  8. SECTION 3: IMPACT
  9. Glossary of Terms
  10. People Mentioned in the Text
  11. Works Cited