Essays about: "colonialism in heart of darkness"

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  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Colonial Consequences: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Foosey Abdulgadir; [2023]
    Keywords : European missionaries; Christianity; Postcolonialism; Igbo culture; Cultural clash; Christian missionaries; ancestral spirits; British colonialists;

    Abstract : This paper explores Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958) within the context of postcolonial theory, focusing on the clash between traditional Igbo culture and the forces of European imperialism. Achebe's work serves as a response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and challenges the stereotypical portrayal of Africans. READ MORE

  3. 2. A critique of racism and colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Menel Amamou; [2022]
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  4. 3. The Other from a Colonial and a Postcolonial Perspective : Comparing Othering in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Åke Steinwall; [2022]
    Keywords : Othering; racism; colonialism; Paradise; Heart of Darkness; xenophobia; fear;

    Abstract : In this essay the use of othering in the novels Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah is compared. The comparative reading is carried out through the lens of a postcolonial framework comprising thoughts and ideas of, among others Edward Said and Ania Loomba. READ MORE

  5. 4. Nineteenth-century critique of colonialism and racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) : A denunciation of European colonialism in a time of atrocities

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Christer Svensson; [2021]
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  6. 5. Things Fall Apart & Heart of Darkness : Colonialism: Presenting the same universal ethic in two diametrically opposite ways

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Sehten Porshe Hills; [2019]
    Keywords : colonialism; colonial; postcolonialism; postcolonial;

    Abstract : This research paper will examine the representation of colonialism in the narratives Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The aim of this Analysis is to demonstrate that both Achebe and Conrad expressed the same universal ethic in two diametrically opposite ways. READ MORE