Postcolonial Uncanny Narrative in Heart of Darkness

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10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Uncanny, abject, heart of darkness, postcolonial, strange self.

Abstract

In the postcolonial context of Heart of Darkness, abject is the result of westerners’ binary opposition to non-westerners and also the cause of their colonial career. Western civilization is full of the abject discourse about non-west and barbarism. Since the abject is part of or the result of those who abject. When civilization comes across barbarism, the former will have uncanny response. In Heart of Darkness, the horror of Marlow towards the African continent and the Africans is the uncanny return in the abject discourse, which inspires his rethinking about civilization and his self. Kurtz’s yell before death is his reaction to the cruel ivory transaction and colonial actions in Africa, which forms the deconstruction of western civilization.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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