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What is Achebe’s claim in this excerpt?
Conrad’s writing focuses on solitude and sickness, not on clashing cultures or belief systems.
Conrad’s depiction of Europeans is biased and mostly negative, and his work should not be read as a result.
Conrad uses Africa mostly as a setting to show how separation and solitude lead the human mind to disintegrate.
Conrad and literary critics of his text have racist viewpoints because they fail to see the dehumanizing depiction of Africans in the text.
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Reason: In "An Image of Africa" Achebe argues that Conrad's Heart of Darkness dehumanizes Africans and reflects a racist worldview, and he criticizes literary critics who downplay or ignore that dehumanizing depiction.
Reason: In "An Image of Africa" Achebe argues that Conrad's Heart of Darkness dehumanizes Africans and reflects a racist worldview, and he criticizes literary critics who downplay or ignore that dehumanizing depiction.
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