The Other from a Colonial and a Postcolonial Perspective : Comparing Othering in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise. / Den andre från ett kolonialt och ett postkolonialt perspektiv : En jämförelse av vi och dom-perspektivet i Joseph Conrads Mörkrets hjärta och Abdulrazak Gurnahs Paradiset.

Description

In this essay the use of othering in the novels Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah is compared. The comparative reading is carried out through the lens of a postcolonial framework comprising thoughts and ideas of, among others Edward Said and Ania Loomba. The analysis of this essay shows that while the othering in Heart of Darkness is based on an ideologically motivated conception of European superiority resulting in racism, the othering in Paradise is based on the status levels in the precolonial East Africa, where in the end economic wealth, culture and religion decided everyone’s position within the system.

Links & Downloads

1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-196901

Tags

Othering

racism

colonialism

Paradise

Heart of Darkness

xenophobia

fear

Humanities and the Arts

Humaniora och konst

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-196901
Date	January 2022
Creators	Steinwall, Åke
Publisher	Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, Åke Steinwall
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess