![]() ![]() In the story, Conrad wrestles with the moral and ethical implications of Western involvement in foreign lands - a subject with which many U.S. The novella is relevant to those who lead or may lead military operations overseas and to those senior policymakers who send them there. Indeed, perhaps his most well-known and widely read work, the classic novella Heart of Darkness, is problematic, to say the least, because of how he depicts the Africans in the story.Īgainst this backdrop, and during a time of renewed focus on social and racial justice in America, Heart of Darkness could be rejected as not worth reading or as unhelpful to military leaders today. His treatment of this relationship in his fiction is keenly incisive, yet contains flawed and insensitive portrayals of indigenous peoples. ![]() Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish parents in Ukraine, his journeys to the far corners of the earth gave him a firsthand view of late 19th-century European interaction with many foreign cultures in the colonized world. Joseph Conrad had a long career as a merchant mariner before he ever ventured to write fiction. ![]()
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