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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Macat Library ; |
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Clare, Clarke.
Macat Library. Spoken word ;
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Macat library.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Macat.com. |
| Summary |
Nigerian novelist and professor Chinua Achebe was acutely conscious that Western views of Africa were inevitably the views of a culture that assumed itself superior. When confronted by what it took to be an inferior culture, the West identified itself as better-materially, intellectually, even spiritually. Achebe believed that even as original and subtle a work as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness-a novel seen by many as a criticism of colonialism and one that Achebe admired stylistically-reflected these assumptions. For Achebe, Heart of Darkness was a book shot through with racist preconceptions that belittled and demeaned both Africa and Africans. As such it could never be considered a great work of art, as had consistently been claimed in the West. Achebe maintained that the novel's racism left it permanently tainted. This was a view that shocked, startled, stimulated, and colored all subsequent opinions of Conrad. It remains controversial and challenging-even divisive-today. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Achebe, Chinua. Image of Africa.
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Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Racism in literature.
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Africa -- In literature.
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Scorgie-Porter, Lindsay, author.
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hoopla digital.
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Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa: racism in Conrad's Heart of darkness |
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Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa
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A Macat analysis of Chinua Achebe's An image of Africa
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| ISBN |
9781912283552 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1912283557 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT13751888 |
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