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"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments. The text is considered to be part of the postcolonial critical movement, which advocates to Europeans the consideration of the viewpoints of non-European nations, as well as peoples coping with the effects of colonialism.

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  • Una imagen de África: racismo en «El corazón de las tinieblas» de Conrad (es)
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  • "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments. The text is considered to be part of the postcolonial critical movement, which advocates to Europeans the consideration of the viewpoints of non-European nations, as well as peoples coping with the effects of colonialism. (en)
  • Una imagen de África: racismo en «El corazón de las tinieblas» de Conrad (An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's «Heart of Darkness») es la versión publicada (y enmendada) de la segunda conferencia de Chinua Achebe en la Universidad de Massachusetts, Amherst, el 18 de febrero de 1975. Se considera que el texto forma parte del movimiento crítico poscolonial, que aboga por tener en cuenta los puntos de vista de las naciones no occidentalizadas y de los pueblos que deben lidiar con los efectos del colonialismo. (es)
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  • "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments. The text is considered to be part of the postcolonial critical movement, which advocates to Europeans the consideration of the viewpoints of non-European nations, as well as peoples coping with the effects of colonialism. In "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness", Achebe accuses Joseph Conrad of being "a thoroughgoing racist" for depicting Africa as "the other world". (en)
  • Una imagen de África: racismo en «El corazón de las tinieblas» de Conrad (An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's «Heart of Darkness») es la versión publicada (y enmendada) de la segunda conferencia de Chinua Achebe en la Universidad de Massachusetts, Amherst, el 18 de febrero de 1975. Se considera que el texto forma parte del movimiento crítico poscolonial, que aboga por tener en cuenta los puntos de vista de las naciones no occidentalizadas y de los pueblos que deben lidiar con los efectos del colonialismo. En Una imagen de África: racismo en «El corazón de las tinieblas» de Conrad, Achebe ataca al texto de Joseph Conrad por considerarlo racista. Según Achebe, . África misma se presenta como «la antítesis de Europa y, por lo tanto, de la civilización», «un complemento de Europa, como lugar de carencias, a la vez remotas y vagamente familiares, frente al cual el propio estado de gracia espiritual europeo se hará manifiesto». (es)
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