Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe

Interviews on Great Writers by Oxford University

Aug 28, 201215:07Education

Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. Achebe deem...

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