How Long to Read An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa by Clare Clarke

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Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe – a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher – looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa, but in which Africans appear only as onlookers or as indistinguishable "savages". Dismissing the prevailing portrayal of Joseph Conrad as a liberal hero whose anti-imperialist views insulated him from significant criticism, Achebe re-cast the Polish author as a "bloody racist" in an analysis so cogent it changed the way in which his discipline looked not only at Conrad, but also at all works with settings indicative of racial conflict. The creative contribution of Achebe’s essay lies in delving far beneath the surface of Conrad’s novel; he not only generated new and highly influential hypotheses about the author's modes of thought and motivations, but also redefined the entire debate over Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", and now falls into the class of “permanent literature”, Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely – or criticize its author.

How long is An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa?

An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa by Clare Clarke is 78 pages long, and a total of 20,124 words.

This makes it 26% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa aloud.

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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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