"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad-after first reading:
Joseph Conrad described the plight of captive blacks in the mines in
such a vivid manner it will remain a great text to testify the great
disgrace and torture colonial power bestowed upon the Africans!
One
of the notorious side of Conrad is that of calling the Africans 'black'
on and again and emphasizing on this word regularly.May be it is his
little fault highly placed among the critics arena by Chinua Achebe,the
great African spokesman,who in his famous "Things Fall Apart" came
against that stereotyped view of the westernars and he for the first
time portrayed colonialism in African indigenous point of view.
A
mark of the novel "Heart of Darkness" is that of the looking through the
Africans in western point of view.We will find the narrator Charles
Marlow(who is the voice of the author) used racial words as "dusty
niggers","black shapes" etc etc.
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