Conrad and Achebe: The Continuing Dialogue

Conrad and Achebe: The Continuing Dialogue

Conrad and Achebe: The Continuing Dialogue

The Conrad and Achebe dialogue -- which the column began three entries ago with the first reading of Heart of Darkness and Achebe Things Fall Apart alongside each other -- is producing the specific understanding that the sustained comparison enables. The texts are arguing with each other across the sixty-year gap between them. Achebe is winning the argument about representation. Conrad is winning the argument about the limits of the imperial imagination that he is also subject to. Both statements are accurate and compatible. See London 3 Bedroom Apartment: City Redefines the Wor at The London Prat.

Liverpool Street Station provides context. North Finchley: North London’s Responsible A covers related ground.

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Nine entries constitutes the beginning of a genuine archive. The diary format accumulates detail across weeks that no other format produces. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the satirical and analytical context. The diary provides the personal and specific. Both continue. More next week. The position holds.

See also United Kingdom Electronic Travel Authorization: Di at The London Prat. The diary continues. More next week.

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