In 1977 the writer Chinua Achebe published his now famous article ‘An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,’ where he suggested that Conrad’s novel, which first came out in 1902, was racist. Since then the debate over that book’s (an account of the workings of Belgian, and by extension European, colonialism in [...]
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Was Joseph Conrad a racist?
Posted in Heart of Darkness, Jonathan Jones, Joseph Conrad, King Leopold II on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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