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Required Reading:
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- "Victorian
Imperialism" (from the "Victorian Age" unit of Topics
Online, an online
companion to the Norton Anthology of English Literature).
The submenus ("Texts and Contexts," "Explorations," etc.)
are also worth checking out if you have the time.
- Edward Said, "Two Visions in Heart of Darkness" (.pdf
format, requires Adobe Reader 6.0 [see below])
Salih, Season of Migration to the North
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Internet Resources:
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Heart of Darkness in context—some
related contemporary texts:
- H. Rider Haggard, She (1885)
and King
Solomon's Mines (1885) (ClassicReader.com)
- "[Rudyard Kipling's] 'The
White Man's Burden' and Its Critics" (1899) (Jim Zwick, Anti-Imperialism
in the United States, 1898-1935)
- Mark Twain, King
Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905)
(Jim Zwick, Mark
Twain's Anti-Imperialist Writings: A Guide to Online
Resources)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan
of the Apes (1912) (Project Gutenburg)
- Vachel Lindsay, "The
Congo: A Study of the Negro Race" (1914) (University
of Toronto) (See also Project Gutenburg's edition of The
Congo and Other Poems)
- Vachel
Lindsay (Mark W. Van Wienen, Modern American
Poetry; includes a section on Race Criticism and "The
Congo")
- T.S. Eliot, "The
Hollow Men" (1925)(alternate
site)
- Criticism of "The
Hollow Men" (Grover Smith, Modern American
Poetry)
- Other Resources (Africa and Heart of Darkness)
- Other Resources (Belgian Imperialism in the Congo)
Salih, Season of Migration to the North
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