If you read this as well, also look at this as Heart of Darkness as is still pretty racist despite being a very good anti colonial book. When I read it in high school, I kinda saw Joseph Conrad both siding with very racist depictions of Africans, and Europeans being just as savage. Maybe it's because my teacher had us read this critique alongside the book.
The protagonist was a true believer until he saw that Europeans were the real monsters, and came to the understanding that Africans and Europeans are of the same moral structure as is indicated with the first dialogue of the book
That a European cannot speak the language or sing the praises of a culture he does not understand does not mean he is incapable of perceiving its inherent humanity, all the good and bad that entails
If you read this as well, also look at this as Heart of Darkness as is still pretty racist despite being a very good anti colonial book. When I read it in high school, I kinda saw Joseph Conrad both siding with very racist depictions of Africans, and Europeans being just as savage. Maybe it's because my teacher had us read this critique alongside the book.
The protagonist was a true believer until he saw that Europeans were the real monsters, and came to the understanding that Africans and Europeans are of the same moral structure as is indicated with the first dialogue of the book
That a European cannot speak the language or sing the praises of a culture he does not understand does not mean he is incapable of perceiving its inherent humanity, all the good and bad that entails
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