Post-Colonial Analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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dc.contributor.authorGuven, Samet
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-29T16:10:05Z
dc.date.available2024-09-29T16:10:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.departmentKarabük Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractJoseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness tells the journey of Marlow through the African jungle and his search for the European Kurtz who exploits the natives by imposing violence on them. It is mainly based upon Conrad's own experience in Congo when he learned how Europeans exploited and traded the natives for their own benefits during his own journey. The book is regarded as an attack on imperialism and criticizes immoral treatments of the European colonizers in Africa in the 19 th century. Keith Booker states that the book deals with issues such as imperialism, capitalism, race, and gender that were very much at the forefront of the turn-of-the century European mind. Conrad's ambivalent treatment of these issues is extremely representative of the way they were treated in any number of European discourses of the time (217). Besides, Chinua Achebe in his An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness comments that Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world', the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where man's vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality (338). Although Achebe puts forward that the novel displays colonialism, I consider that Conrad does not intend to write it to appreciate colonialism and therefore the purpose of this paper is to approach Conrad's Heart of Darkness from post-colonial perspective by taking European imperialism and colonialism over Africa into consideration in order to clarify how Conrad has deconstructed binary oppositions of colonialism by subverting the general idea of the Europeans towards Africa in the 19th century.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.7596/taksad.v2i2.233
dc.identifier.endpage87en_US
dc.identifier.issn2147-0626
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage79en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v2i2.233
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/7945
dc.identifier.volume2en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000217028200007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKarabuk Univen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTarih Kültür Ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi-Journal of History Culture and Art Researchen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectImperialismen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectCivilizationen_US
dc.titlePost-Colonial Analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darknessen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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