Claustrophobic Space and the Rediscovery of Landscape in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Natural landscape is not prominent in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness,but in the last part of Marlow's upriver journey,the claustrophobic space formed by the African jun-gle repeatedly frustrates his vision of the landscape.This frustration can be viewed as a chal-lenge to the dominance of cartography over the African land,a cause for the sublimity of the African jungle,and a denial of the European perspective-based representation of landscapes.By forcing Marlow to take a beetle's rather than a bird's-eye view of the"Dark Continent",the claustrophobic space helps him to find out"another image of Africa",which not only sheds new light on postcolonial interpretations of this novella,but also provokes a reconsider-ation of our modern ways of sightseeing.
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