An Image of Africa

Specific topic: Using Heart of Darkness and Achebe’s above entitled article, and  three additional sources (more is okay but not required), write a synthesized paper on racism in Heart of Darkness.  You will most likely want to introduce Achebe’s essay and argument in the introduction as a lead-in to your thesis.  Your synthesis can be either explanatory or an argument (you get to choose) – If you don’t know the difference, go back and review the PowerPoint.  You will need to narrow your thesis to a specific point about racism. Move beyond, Conrad is/is not racist.   Choose from the texts below for your three additional sources:   Carl Phillips’ “Was Joseph Conrad a Really a Racist?” p200 (Achebe) Hunt Hawkins’ “Heart of Darkness and Racism” p332 (Conrad) Urmila Seshagiri’s “ Race and Modernist Form” p 424 (Conrad) Ewa Kujawska-Lis’ “Turning Heart of Darkness into a Racist Text: A Comparison of Two Polish Translations” – (handout) Nineteenth-Century Attitudes toward Race (various authors) p 193-209 (Conrad) Gene Moore’s “Slavery and Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Eastern World” Richard Rankin Russell’s “Dante’s Bilacqua n Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . .. “