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By Niklas Manhart

Seminar paper from the yr 2011 within the topic English Language and Literature reports - Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Englische Philologie), direction: Hauptseminar Postcolonial Literature, language: English, summary: Henry Rider Haggard is frequently regarded as a crude imperialist and chauvinist expansionist beliefs, while Joseph Conrad’s center of Darkness has usually been referred to as the anti-imperialist novel par excellence. during this essay, I argue by contrast point of view. I declare thatin comparability to center of Darkness, which certainly initiatives Africa as a unfavorable foil for Europe, Rider Haggard manages to provide Africa and its population, regardless of his literary shortcomings, a swish caliber no longer present in Conrad’s paintings. whereas either authors depict Africa as ‘the different global’ within the approach their objectives and prejudices create a picture with little historic accuracy, Haggard’s adorned social utopia fails to show the deep-seated nervousness in the direction of Africa Achebe unearths in Conrad.

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