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'In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), the sailor Charles Marlow recalls captaining a river steamer in the Belgian Congo, a venture that becomes a search for the colonial agent Kurtz, said to be a brilliant if infamous ivory trader, who is ill and possibly mad. Marlow’s journey, of course, becomes a passage into psychological as well as (to the European mind) geographical darkness, and offers a damning portrait of Western imperialism.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review no. 465 June 2024 28186228 2024 periodical issue

    'The June issue goes subterranean with James Curran on AUKUS and the stark differences between US and Australian rhetoric about the submarine program. Miranda Johnson reports on the erosion of a bicultural consensus in Aotearoa New Zealand. Peter Rose reviews the letters of Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower. Matthew Lamb tells of the covert actions involving Frank Moorhouse and a photocopier that strengthened Australia’s copyright laws. James Ley considers Salman Rushdie’s Knife, and Anna Krien a pioneering environmentalist in John Büsst. We review memoirs by Bruce Pascoe and Werner Herzog, and fiction from Shankari Chandran, Louise Milligan, Ceridwen Dovey, and more. And in ABR Arts, Neil Armfield is our guest on Backstage.' (Publication summary)

     

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