This essay offers a postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece novella Heart of Darkness. As part of a general introduction to Conrad's oeuvre, it summarizes the most influential postcolonial interpretations of this quintessentially colonial text and it also tries to offer a broader scope in light of Agamben's biopolitical theories. Postcolonialism, in this light, is not a set canon or just a political reading, but a process to which we can subject any text.
Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Process
BASSI, Shaul
2007-01-01
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This essay offers a postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece novella Heart of Darkness. As part of a general introduction to Conrad's oeuvre, it summarizes the most influential postcolonial interpretations of this quintessentially colonial text and it also tries to offer a broader scope in light of Agamben's biopolitical theories. Postcolonialism, in this light, is not a set canon or just a political reading, but a process to which we can subject any text.File in questo prodotto:
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