A Revisit of Heart of Darkness in the Perspective of Orientalism
Heart of Darkness is one of the worlds best novellas and is generally accepted as the best representative of the ideological and artistic features of Joseph Conrads works.The novella has rendered readers with detailed descriptions of the primitive,poor,barbaric African Congo.The thesis here tries to revisit the novella through the perspective of Edward Saids famous post-colonial theory,Orientalism.It aims to analyze the Orientalist ideas revealed in the text of Heart of Darkness through three major aspects.First of all,Africa is depicted as“the other worldand is deprived of discourse to defend itself.African blacks and African continent are depicted as the image of the“otherand responsible for the degeneration of Western whites.Secondly,the natives of Africa all appear in negative description and are dehumanized.Thirdly,differentiated attitudes are maintained toward equivalent black and white concepts,such as different attitudes toward African blacks and Western whites and toward Congo and British nature.Through detailed analysis of Orientalist ideas in the text,readers may find it reasonable to consider Conrad an Orientalist and Heart of Darkness an Orientalist text.
Darkness Orientalism Orient Occident Other
Fu Dan
School of English Language and Culture,South China Business College,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China
国际会议
2018东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2018 NALLTS)
呼伦贝尔
英文
60-67
2018-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）