Counteractive Strategies in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives of Memory: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

• Main Author: Akhtar, Rizwan
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2013
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/stjgs/vol1/iss1/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/stjgs/article/1030/viewcontent/STJGS_201.1_204_20Article_20__20Akhtar.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper examines the role of memory in colonial and postcolonial literary narratives. In postcolonial and colonial literary discourse, memory spaces are fiercely contested. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1906) and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day (1980) are respectively colonial and postcolon...