Essays about: "of heart of darkness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words of heart of darkness.

  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 Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from

    Author : Rudy Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Heart of Darkness; Race; Essentialism; Anti-essentialism;

    Abstract : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. READ MORE

  4. 3. What Role for Europe? : An analysis of the political discourse of the heads of state or government of the European Union on Twitter during the first thirty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Camille Robert van Hees; [2023]
    Keywords : Europe; EU; political discourse analysis; 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; Twitter;

    Abstract : On 24 February 2022, war returned to Europe, and the EU faced an enormous external crisis at its doorstep. As leaders' words and political discourse play a significant role during crises, it is crucial to study the reaction of EU leaders to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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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  6. 5. 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