[lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead

[c b]

> Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, has long argued
> that
> Joseph Conrad was a racist. Caryl Phillips, an admirer of both
> writers,
> disagrees.

^^^^^^^
CB: The character Mistuh Kurtz was probably an out an out white supremacist.

Conrad might fall into the category of liberal, in the sense of having
a paternalistic savior attitude toward the "natives", a la "The White
Man's Burden" (an avatar, or "heavenly" visitor to "earth") Thus, he
writes a book exposing the extreme white supremacist, colonialist type
in Mistah Kurtz.