Background on Joseph Conrad -- Conrad's life as a sailor and writer -- The destruction of Conrad's colonial ideal -- Heart of Darkness and colonialism -- The bright intentions and dark realities of colonialism in Heart of Darkness -- Victorian ethics, the new science, and colonialism in Heart of Darkness -- Conrad was neither a colonialist nor a racist -- The evils of colonialism's petty bureaucracy -- The theme of death in Heart of Darkness -- The colonizer becomes the savage in Heart of Darkness -- Marlow dispels the illusions about colonialism -- The irony of Marlow's narration shows him to be a semicolonialist -- Kurtz's evil is in adopting darkness -- Heart of Darkness reveals Conrad's ambivalence toward colonialism -- An African defends Conrad's anticolonialism -- Contemporary perspectives on colonialism -- A poor continent rich in resources -- Corrupt native leaders give land away to foreigners -- Biofuels and neocolonialism -- Neocolonialist China in Africa.
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"Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Background on Joseph Conrad; Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Contemporary Perspectives on Colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.
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