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Deconstructing empire in Joseph Conrad and Zakes Mda (1).(Critical Essay)
From: Journal of Literary Studies
Date: 20031201
Author:Sewlall, Harry
Summary
The publication of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness in 2000, almost a century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is not only redolent of its precursor in a titular sense, but also in its contingent and contiguous themes. Viewed from a postcolonial/postmodern perspective, both texts may be regarded as subversive offerings which disrupt colonial configurations of subjectivity. The degree to which Conrad and Mda succeed in deconstructing empire depends on the conditions of the historical production of their respective texts. Located within a modernist sensibility, Heart ...
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