Appendix 3: A Mini-Casebook on Heart of Darkness
General Guides/Introductions to Conrad’s Novella
Heart of Darkness (Peter Cash). An excellent 17-page booklet on the main theme of HD. (English Association, Leicester) https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/documents/publications/New%20Folder/bookmarks/69.pdf
A Guide to Heart of Darkness (Allen Kromer) from Signet (Penguin) 25 pages. http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/HeartOfDarknessTG.pdf
Bookdrum: Heart of Darkness (Gordon Knox). Contains useful background ideas, historical contexts, maps, illustrations, and glossary.http://www.bookdrum.com/books/heart-of-darkness/9780140186529/index.html
A BBC In Our Time podcast on HD from 2007 (45 minutes). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077474
Readings for Research Essay Topic 1
Is Heart of Darkness a racist work? You should start with a good definition of racism to help structure your essay.
Suggested length: 1,500 words
- Achebe, Chinua. “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness'” http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html
- “Achebe on Racism in Heart of Darkness. Teisch. Victorian Web. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/conrad1.html
- “’A Bloody Racist’: About Achebe’s View of Conrad.” Cedric Watts
- http://images.schoolinsites.com/SiSFiles/Schools/AL/HartselleCity/HartselleHigh/Uploads/Forms/A%20Bloody%20Racist%20by%20Watts.pdf
- Postcolonial Criticism of Heart of Darkness http://ibsmarter.edublogs.org/files/2012/05/Heart-of-Darkness-Critical-Survey-p4seaw.pdf
- “Heart of Darkness“: “Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?”Author(s): PATRICK BRANTLINGER. Source: Criticism, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Fall, 1985), pp. 363-385. Published by: Wayne State University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23110450
- Bolacki, S. http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/seminars/conrad.php
- Sarvan, C.P. “Racism and the Heart of Darkness.” The International Fiction Review, 7, No. 1 (1980), 6-10. Click on pdf link. http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/issue/view/1094
Readings for Research Essay Topic 2
Imperialism in Heart of Darkness. Start with a good definition of both imperialism and colonialism.
Suggested length: 1,500 words
- Victorian History British Empire (Victorian Web) http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/index.html
- “Conrad’s Critique of Imperialism in Heart of Darkness” Hawkins, Hunt. Conrad’s Critique of Imperialism in Heart of Darkness. PMLA
Vol. 94, No. 2 (Mar., 1979), pp. 286-299
Published by: Modern Language Association
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/461892 - “Imperialism: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Raskin, Jonahhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/259954
- From Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism (1993). http://projects.ecfs.org/eastwest/Readings/SaidConrad.pdf
- “Conrad’s Bloody Imperialism: Achebe, Said, and What Conrad Really Wrote.” Zelnick.
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/zelnick.html
- Svensson, M. http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:356589/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- “White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Allingham.
- www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva52.html
- “Kurtz as a Symbol of Imperialism.” Chapter 3 (pp 55-96) Thesis. http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/43470/1/Fazzino_Anna_Maria.pdf
Readings for Research Essay Topic 3
The Position of Women in Heart of Darkness.
Suggested length: 1,500 words
- “Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the World of Western Women.” Peters. Studies in Short Fiction. 37.1 (EBSCO).http://fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~james_m_kerr/FOV1-00369D07/FOV1-00377EFD/Joseph%20Conrad%20Heart%20of%20Darkness%20and%20the%20world%20of%20wester%20wom.pdf
- “ AN ASHY HALO: WOMAN AS SYMBOL IN ‘HEART OF DARKNESS’ Geary, Edward A. Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 76, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p. 499, 8p. [EBSCO] http://web.ebscohost.com/lrc/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bnjisfk5Ie46bdMsq%2bxUa%2bk63nn5KyE8Nm%2bSbClskewpq9Knqi4SLSwr0mexss%2b8ujfhvHX4Yzn5eyB4rOvT7GnsVGzqa9JpOLfhuWz44ak2uBV6tzmPvLX5VW%2fxKR57LO1SbGpsk20nOSH8OPfjLvc84Tq6uOQ8gAA&hid=14
- “The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” McIntire. MFS (Project Muse). http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/Lehre/Dokumente/2002_mcintire_the_women_do_not_travel.pdf
- “Reading Race and Gender in Conrad’s Dark Continent.” London Free JSTOR. Criticism. Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-252. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23113360
- “Revisiting Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Women, Symbolism and Resistance.” Smith. M.A. Thesis. http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A2980/datastream/OBJ/view
- Student Essay, “Sexism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Ali. http://www.agorajournal.org/2008/Ali.pdf
