HEART OF DARKNESS
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A series of essays and critical readings on Joseph Conrad's 1899 postcolonial work.
Heart of Darkness, Conrad, and Cultural Myopia
Dec 23, 2024
13 min. read
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Conrad challenges traditional ways of ‘seeing’, yet his own vision is undermined by cultural blind spots. Is this necessarily true?
Marlow's Internal Journey, Through the West, Towards Kurtz
Dec 23, 2024
21 min. read
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Marlow's journey up the Congo River unearths far more when abstracted out of a post-colonial lens and gleaned as a tale of self-introspection.
On The Pall of Western Rhetoric and Colonialism
Dec 23, 2024
15 min. read
Marlow's struggle to reconcile his narrated experiences give insight into the turmoil left in the wake of a Western, colonial ideology.
Marlow, Kurtz and The Congo Redemption
Dec 23, 2024
13 min. read
"Heart of Darkness" extends not just a critique of colonialist thought, but the psychological struggle it endows on the individual when its immorality is exposed.
Ep. 14: Goodbye
Dec 23, 2024
20 min. read
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It all comes to an end.