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Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) both undoubtedly chart the descent of European men into imperial spaces where conquest is framed as both inevitable and just as morally ambiguous. While Conrad embeds Marlow’s Congo journey in the rhetoric of civilization and trade, Coppola decides to…
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Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s short story “My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa” (2006) provide two different and polarizing portrayals of Africa under the umbrella shadow of colonialism. While Pollack’s film transforms Karen Blixen’s memoir into a lush, nostalgic romance of white settlers in Kenya, Gurnah’s…
Static Pages, Moving Meaning 