Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Achebea highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacherlooked 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.
57.90 Lei
