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The Heart of the Matter (1953) Graham Greene’s works never fail to stage moral crises within colonial settings, where personal decisions reflect broader tensions about imperial decline. In The Heart of the Matter (1953, dir. George More O’Ferrall) and the first half of The Quiet American (1955), the messy entanglement of private lives with political…
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A Dry White Season (1989) Doris Lessing’s The Old Chief Mshlanga (1951) and Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season (1989) are separated by both form and medium, but they do share a main concern of how white protagonists end up confronting their implication in systems of racial domination. Both works successfully expose the hard-headed structures…
Static Pages, Moving Meaning 