An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

by Clare Clarke and Lindsay Scorgie-Porter

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912127776
• ISBN13: 9781912127771
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Macat Library
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"