The Setting Sun Postcolonial Anxiety in Edgar Huntly and Heart of Darkness

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Wallace, Miriam

Keywords

Post Colonial, Empire, Joseph Conrad, Charles Brockden Brown

Area of Concentration

English

Abstract

The field of postcolonial studies has rarely looked at American literature in a postcolonial context. The goal of this project is to draw together a traditional postcolonial text, Joseph Conrad�s Heart of Darkness, and an early American novel, Charles Brockden Brown�s Edgar Huntly, and address problematic issues that appear in both works: the concept of postcoloniality, the portrayal of native peoples, and the situation ofwomen in empire. Most importantly, the focus of this project is on the voices of the two novels� narrators, who are neither entirely colonized nor entirely imperialistic characters, and whose voices have been marginalized due to their liminal statuses.

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