
18/08/2025
📢 New Article Published!
✨ Illusion of Enlightenment: A Postcolonial and Formalist Insight into Heart of Darkness through Conrad’s Imperial Narrative ✨
Authors:
👩🎓 Ateeqa Sajid, Government College University Faisalabad
👩🎓 Alishba Arshad, University of the Punjab
🔍 This paper critically re-examines Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness through postcolonial perspectives (Said, Achebe, Adichie, Ngũgĩ) and formalist critiques, uncovering the subtle violence, identity struggles, and moral ambiguities in Conrad’s imperial narrative.
Interpreting Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness through the lens of an erudite struggling to survive in a postcolonial, disruptive world is an intellectually stimulating experience. In this context, we are able to examine the systematic colonial ideologies embedded within both the conscious and subco...