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Who defended Conrad in 1993 as a response to Achebe's critique of Heart of Darkness in her/his "Two Visions in Heart of Darkness"?
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Edward Said defended Conrad in the book Culture and Imperialism (1993), in a chapter called Two Visions in Heart of Darkness, answering Achebe's charge that Conrad was a racist. Said said that Conrad could see the imperial system but not beyond it. Spivak, Bhabha and Jeremy Hawthorn also wrote about colonial writing but the title is Said's. Said's chapter in Culture and Imperialism argues that Conrad was both an imperialist and an anti-imperialist, because he could see how the empire worked but could imagine no alternative to it. Achebe's lecture An Image of Africa (1975) had called Conrad a thoroughgoing racist.
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