The document analyzes Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' through a post-colonial lens, incorporating Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia and Chinua Achebe's critique of racism. It discusses the metaphorical and thematic significance of space in the narrative, asserting that the journey into Africa represents a complex intersection of past and present, as well as dehumanization. Additionally, it examines the implications of colonialism and the portrayal of Africa in literature.

1. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad's depiction of Africa . Michel Foucault's heterotopia A post-colonial view: Chinua Achebe's view on racism

2. Heart of Darkness The aspect of space as setting as metaphor as metonymy

3. Heterotopia Spaces in Heart of Darkness “ On other spaces” by Michel Foucault Heterotopia - where other spaces can be «simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.» (Foucault 1986)‏

4. Heterotopia as setting The heterotopia at sea «Between us were [...] the bond of the sea. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns - and even convictions.» (Conrad 2005, p. 1891)

5. A safe and familiar heterotopia “ my steamboat” (Conrad 2005, p. 1912)‏ “ (I stuck to my salvage night and day)” “ made him love her” “ influential friend” (Ibid p. 1910)‏

6. Leaping ashore “ I have wrestled with death” “ I had peeped over the edge myself” (Ibid p. 1942)‏

7. A floating kind of space The journey

8. The heterotopia of deviation Dissolving of norms No efficiency No gentlemanship No humanity

9. The heterochrony “ Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of time” (p. 1914)‏ “ travelling in the night of first ages” (p. 1916)‏ Juxaposing the present and the past

10. Heterotopia as metaphor and metonymy (Abrams 1993)‏ “ whited sepulchre” (p. 1896)‏ tenor: the city vehicle: the whited sepulchre

11. Africa a passion for maps the blank space filled with: “ the faithless pilgrims” (p. 1907)‏ “ The horror!” (p. 1941)‏

12. A post-colonial critique Chinua Achebe a variation on silence and frenzy (Achebe 2005, p. 2709)‏ “ showing us Africa in the mass” (Ibid p. 2710)‏ a dehumanization (Ibid p. 2714)‏

13. Marlow - a racist? What about Conrad?

14. The British and the Roman Empire «one of the dark places of the earth» (Conrad 2005, p. 1892)‏ «conquered its darkness» (Achebe 2005, p. 2709)‏ «flicker» of time (Conrad 2005, p. 1893)‏ «The high stillness confronted these two figures with its ominous patience, waiting for the passing away of a fantastic invasion.» (Ibid. p. 1914)‏

15. The dark place «The conquest of the earth [...], is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.» (p. 1894)‏ heart of darkness