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A Bloody Racist! Chinua Achebe on Joseph Conrad – Into the Heart of Darkness Part 5

In this fifth instalment of the Into the Heart of Darkness series, we examine the criticism made by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013), who had labelled Joseph Conrad a "thoroughgoing racist" in a 1975 essay titled “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness”. Achebe`s view was that Heart of Darkness cannot be considered a great work of art because it is "a novel which celebrates... dehumanisation, which depersonalises a portion of the human race." Referring to Conrad as a "talented, tormented man", Achebe notes that Conrad (via the protagonist, Charles Marlow) reduces and degrades Africans to "limbs", "ankles", "glistening white eyeballs", etc., while simultaneously (and fearfully) suspecting a common kinship between himself and these natives—leading Marlow to sneer the word "ugly.” Chinua Achebe is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel. Part 1 – The Uncertain Early Life of Joseph Conrad    • The Uncertain Early Life of Joseph Co...   Part 2 – The Murderous Exploitation of the Congo    • The Murderous Exploitation of the Con...   Part 3 – The Edwardian Critical Response to Conrad’s HOD    • The Edwardian Critical Response to Co...   Part 4 - How Apocalypse Now was shaped by HOD    • How Apocalypse Now was shaped by Hear...   Please Like, Comment or Subscribe if you enjoy this video! If you enjoy the content we produce here at Heart for History and would like to support us, please do it here: https://paypal.me/HeartforHistory Every donation which we receive will directly help the channel grow and develop, and assist us in our objective to produce accessible, high-quality educational content which both informs and inspires. At the Foot of the Sphinx by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/