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Kalua, Fetson
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-01-07T14:22:38Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-01-07T14:22:38Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-03-26 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Fetson Kalua (2014) Locating the Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 26:1, 12-18 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2159-9130 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2014.897462 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14630 |
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dc.description |
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dc.description |
Due to copyright restrictions, the full text of this article is not attached to this item. Please follow the DOI link at the top of the record to access the online published version on the official website of the journal |
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dc.description.abstract |
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a story of an expedition by European voyagers into the hub of the African continent at a time when such explorations into unknown lands were
commonplace. As a colonial narrative, Conrad’s text has provoked intense criticism and
heated debate, much of which points to the novella’s racist overtones. This is largely owing to Joseph Conrad’s foregrounding and representations of nativism, primitivism and
degeneracy, which are writ large in the novella. Using Homi Bhabha’s idea of ambivalence
and Mieke Ba’s concept of focalisation, in tandem, this paper exonerates Conrad’s text from the charges of racism, arguing that the novella draws attention to the underlying
ambivalence which is located at the very heart of colonial narrative and discourse. |
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Routledge |
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dc.subject |
Joseph Conrad |
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Heart of Darkness |
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primitivism |
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postcolonial |
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ambivalence |
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Homi Bhabha |
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dc.title |
Locating the Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse in JosephConrad's Heart of Darkness |
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Article |
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English Studies |
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