Colonial Mimicry, Modernist Experimentation, and the Hegelian Dialectics of Empire: A Postcolonial Deconstructive Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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DOI: 10.1515/culture-2025-0062
Abstract: Abstract The present study offers an analytical nucleus of Joseph Conrad’s polemical novella Heart of Darkness (1899) that weaves and interweaves between Victorianism and Modernism, capturing the zeitgeist of its time. This is particularly punctuated… read more here.
Keywords: joseph conrad; heart darkness; colonial mimicry;
Writing against the Currents of Cultural Deracination: Colonial Mimicry and Postcolonial Representation in Mohamed Al 'Ali 'Ar'Ar's Mā lā Tadhruhū al-Riyāḥ [What the Winds Cannot Wipe Off]
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DOI: 10.2979/ral.00018
Abstract: ABSTRACT:This research considers the representation of cultural deracination in Mohamed Al 'Ali 'Ar'Ar's novel Mā lā Tadhruhū al-Riyāḥ. The book engages with the discourse of colonial mimicry bringing to the surface the bitter ramifications of… read more here.
Keywords: cultural deracination; colonial mimicry; tadhruh riy; mohamed ali ... See more keywords