Don't think Chinua Achebe would have liked this if he did not like Heart of Darkness.
Don't think Chinua Achebe would have liked this if he did not like Heart of Darkness.
Is this an essay or a novel? Can you give us the title, kev?
It's a novel, well boys' story, set in southern Africa. It's a little bit old-fashioned in its attitudes, if you know what I mean. It reminds me a lot of those 1930s Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
The book may not be very progressive racially speaking, but it is surprisingly homoerotic for a C19th boys' adventure book.