2016
DOI: 10.1353/mar.2016.0003
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An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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“…This highly respected profession was usually handed down from generation to generation ensuring that Kings, Queens and Princes and Princesses were educated and equipped for leadership. This serves to lend credence to the idea that beyond the entertainment advantage to storytelling, oral literature serves as a means of educating and instructing as well as entrenching indigenous norms in many civil societies (Achebe, 1975).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…This highly respected profession was usually handed down from generation to generation ensuring that Kings, Queens and Princes and Princesses were educated and equipped for leadership. This serves to lend credence to the idea that beyond the entertainment advantage to storytelling, oral literature serves as a means of educating and instructing as well as entrenching indigenous norms in many civil societies (Achebe, 1975).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…That is to say that there is no pure imitation in fiction work, for it to be called artistic and from that corner, the novelist can conceive his/her story with the societal objective that his people wants to live in such an imagined world which is not merely depicted, but rather built on the basis of expectations with the same artistic demands. Concrete examples can be shown through Achebe's (1972;1977) very works: Achebe's short stories collected under the title "Girls at War and Other Stories" are globally about African daily issues and specifically about survival matters in war time. The collection, purely fictional, is closely transposable to the Biafra war circumstances.…”
Section: New Perspectives For Thematic and Structural Organisation Ofmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Heart of Darkness, according to Achebe, Conrad uses mysteriousness, lack of language, frenzy, and common origins to construct Congo as an "Other". In "An Image of Africa", novels such as Heart of Darkness represent Africa as another because of "the desire-one might indeed say the need-in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe" (Achebe, 2001(Achebe, , p. 1784. For Achebe, Conrad animalizes the African people, going so far as to deny them language and reducing them to grunts and "frenzy" (Achebe, 2001(Achebe, , pp.…”
Section: The Heart Of Darkness/king Kong Interplaymentioning
confidence: 99%