Sameer Bhavnani Dr. Alex Toth English 1A May 23, 2003 Racism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness "We have to be very chary about pontificating on the "totality of meaning" of "Heart of Darkness."' Written by Harold Collins, who believes when you read the book one should not come to easy conclusions. (104) Many scholars such as Ian Watt speculate that Joseph Conrad was a racist, writing, "...using the word "cannibal" to describe natives of Africa, displayed …showed first 75 words of 1401 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1401 total…lt;http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit3/studentproject/conrad/racism.html/> Collins, Harold R. Twentieth - Century Literary Criticism Vol. 13 Essay date 1954. pp.104 Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer with Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Signet Classic, 1997. Guerard, Albert J. Twentieth - Century Literary Criticism Vol. 13 Essay date 1950. pp.103 Waller, James. Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America University of Massachusetts Press Due/Published September 2002, pp. 272