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The Empire Writes Back:
Heart of Darkness
Page Index
Click these links to go to the major sub-sections.
- Conrad Writes the Empire--Heart of Darkness
- Caribbean Responses--authors alphabetized
Writing the Empire
Joseph Conrad (Poland), Heart of Darkness
- Notes on Heart of Darkness --teacher's introductory notes; helpful overview of basics.
- Marlow's Lie: A Lecture-- instructor's close reading of the novel.
- An Image of Africa: Racism in Heart of Darkness--Chinua Achebe's famous critique of Conrad's novel.
- Conrad's image of Africa: Recovering African voices in Heart of Darkness--Mwikisa's scholarly paper, reworkng Achebe's criticism of Conrad's novel.
- Enigmatic Proportions: The Harlequin in Heart of Darkness--scholarly reading of this figure and response to Achebe.
- African Art: Behind the Mask--this Belgian exhibit of African art provides startling background to the 19th Century imperialism Conrad records.
- Marxism and Ideology: Heart of Darkness--Smith's scholarly article.
- First Descents into The Inferno . . .in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and Dostoevsky's "Notes from The House of the Dead" --Berry's scholarly article.
- An Inglorious Enterprise: Empire, Ideology, and Transformation in "Heart of Darkness" and A Passage to India--draft of a thesis chapter.
- Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky--Berry's scholarly article.
- Two Visions in Heart of Darkness --Edward Said's article.
- Kurtz's Three Lives--A Metaphor of the Imperial March in Heart Of Darkness--Mami's scholarly article.
- Danse Macabre: Conrad's Heart of Darkness--Karl's scholarly introduction.
- Layered Imagings and Colonial Fantasy: Possession, Penetration, and Tarzan Comic Books --Murphy's scholarly article on the pop culture image of Africa.
Caribbean Responses
V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad)
- From "Middle Passage"--essay by Naipaul.
- Naipaul Biography.
- V.S. Naipaul--biography.
- Naipaul--many links.
- Naipul's A Bend in the River and Neo-colonialism as a Comparative Context--Eid's scholarly article comparing Naipaul and Conrad.
- Questioning of Historical Documents and Sources in A Bend in the River--graduate student essay.
- The Ignoble Politics of Naipaul's Nobel --thoughtful news article on Naipaul's writing and politics.
- The Heritage of the Present: V. S. Naipaul and Globalization--Chun-Fu's scholarly essay.
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)
- A Far Cry from Africa --e-text; poem.
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