Clare Clarke

An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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Produktbeschreibung

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebeà â â s essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely or criticize its author.

Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9781912127771
• ISBN-10: 1912127776
• Artikelnr.: 48874251

Autorenporträt

Dr Clare Clarke holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen's University Belfast, specialising in Victorian Literature. She currently teaches Nineteenth-Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways In to the Text Who was Chinua Achebe? What does An Image of Africa
Say? Why does An Image of Africa Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1:
The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3:
The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5:
Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place
in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module
10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12:
Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited