Achebe on Conrad

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jbor wrote:

> 
> The unanswered question remains how far, or in what ways, Conrad's
> perspective aligns with Charlie Marlow's. This is the point on which
> Achebe's critique of _Heart of Darkness_ might be challenged. If it is fair
> to suggest that Marlow does not perceive Africans as individuals, as equally
> "human" and worthy of "salvation" as Kurtz is, or, indeed, as he himself is
> -- and I think this is in fact a fair enough assertion to make -- then in
> what way or ways does that additional framing narrative serve to distance
> Conrad's viewpoint from Marlow's?
> 
> best

Again, I refer you to the Norton 3rd, HoD, specifically to
"The Colonistic Bias of Heart of Darkness" by Frances B.
Singh. The essay raises and answers these questions. 

Also see C.P. Sarvan's "Racism and the Heart of Darkness" 

and Ian Watt's Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of
Darkness.