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Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe

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Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point.
Achebe deemed Conrad a 'bloody racist', and McDonald considers how Conrad's relationship to language and narrative complicates this.

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Interviews on Great Writers
People
Peter McDonald
Keywords
postcolonial
racism
Heart of Darkness
first person
#greatwriters
narrative
politics
nationality
Conrad
Achebe
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 28/08/2012
Duration: 00:15:07

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