COL49 - Chap 1: Roseman

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I agree.  I've always felt Achebe's attack was unfair.

LK

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>

> 
>But it's an interesting question. On the one hand, I think Lot 49 could in many ways be
>considered a feminist novel, or at least a proto-feminist novel, but on the other hand it WAS written 
>in the largely pre-feminist '60s, as Laura points out. A good comparison here would be Joseph Conrad's 
>"Heart of Darkness" - a stark critique of racism and imperialism, but still inevitably tinged by the period 
>in which it was written and by the paradigm it was trying to escape. Still, first steps can only go so far, 
>and Chinua Achebe is way off the mark, IMHO, when he calls Conrad a "bloody racist."