Western Colonialism by Joseph Conrad and An Image of Africa by Chinua Achebe

This article aims not only to confirm Joseph Conrad's criticism against Western colonialism but also to protect against the "image of Africa" ​​of Chinusa Cave. The reason for paying attention to the latter is to ensure that Dark Heart is not misunderstood as a trial of Western colonialism Comb must be a "complete racist". Conrad showed a figurative journey of the dark heart represented by the Congo to the audience to show his view on the efforts of the Western colonial era.

Among the various controversies surrounding Conrad 's work, the most famous thing was caused by Nigerian writer Chinuakobe. In his essay "The image of Africa: racial discrimination in Conrad's dark heart", he believes that "Joseph Conrad is a thorough racist" (260). The influence as a place is definitely evident in the spiritual grace situation of Europe itself "(261). He said that Conrad represented Africa as "another world", that is, opposition to Europe and opposition to civilization (253), thereby acknowledging that Conrad was disgusted by blacks. The issue of racial discrimination has caused controversy, is ongoing, and given the political and social situation where he is located, this is absolutely inevitable.

In Chinua Achebe's article "The African Image", Achebe calls Conrad a "bloody racist" and criticizes his novel. He insisted, "The attitude of Conrad is still aversion to black people." In the novel, it is clear that "pilgrims" or Europeans do not care about the happiness of Africans. "Of course, they brought rotten flesh meat, in any case, even if the pilgrims did not throw away a considerable amount of hippo, it would not last long." Africans are like people is. Just like the Europeans, how can Africans believe that they do not need food? The European including the narrator Marlow does not believe in African human race at all.

Achebe, the latter African and African stereotypes in his novels derives from the attempt to restore the image of Africans and Africans from the negative and distorted depiction over the centuries of the West Conrad I insist on. Achebe considers that the story of Conrad is an example of inhumanization of African literature by Western literature and colonialism. Since authors can talk stories to manipulate languages ​​and make Africans inhuman, it seems a little troubling for Achebe to be fascinating to fascinate the story of Conrad. In his article, Achebe highlighted several points that promoted his idea. He told us without doubt that Conrad is one of the excellent stylists of contemporary novels and is an excellent storyteller. Sexual literature - reading and teaching, and continually being evaluated by serious scholars. "Achebe reminds us that the dark heart is safe as it is part of the literary classics