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Comparing An Image Of Racism In Heart Of Darkness And Poisonwood Bible

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In Achebe’s article "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness", he states that racism can be so easily glossed over due to the normality of racism directed towards Africa, “due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking”. Africa becomes “devoid of all recognizable humanity” and becomes a perilous journey and property of the Western civilization. This is evident in Heart of Darkness and Poisonwood Bible. Both stories depict Africa as distant and inferior to the beliefs and governments of Europe or America. To Rachel, the natives are initially strange and presented as dangerous. This way of thinking is similar to the TED Talk by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story,
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