![]() ![]() ![]() Today, more than ever, Conrad demands our attention for his insight into the moral challenges of a globalised world. But his dated prejudices, abhorrent though they are to readers today, coexist in his work with elements of exceptional clairvoyance. It is right to call out the racism – and, for that matter, the orientalism, antisemitism and androcentrism – in Conrad’s work. ![]() And Heart of Darkness is known to many as the object of a blistering critique by the late Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who condemned Conrad as “a bloody racist” for his degrading portrayal of Africans. But these “news” stories have also been in circulation for more than a century, as plotlines in the novels of Joseph Conrad, one of the greatest and most controversial modern English writers.Ĭonrad is known to most readers as the author of Heart of Darkness, about a British sea captain’s journey up an unnamed African river. ![]() A terrorist bombing in London, a shipping accident in southeast Asia, political unrest in a South American republic and mass violence in central Africa: each of these topics has made headlines in the past few months. ![]()
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