Resistance and Voice: Colonial Silencing and Postcolonial Reclamation in “Heart of Darkness” and “Things Fall Apart”

Abstract

This paper comparatively erodes Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to interrogate the transformation from colonial subjugation to postcolonial restoration of experiences. Particularly the impressions of illustration, subalternity, and treatise, the work employs qualitative comparative textual analysis to delve into how narrative supremacy shapes African identity in accordance to postcolonial theory. The study revolves around the dehumanization of Africans subjectivity due to enslavement of expansionism. Conversely, Things Fall Apart retrieves cultural supremacy by centering African conceptions, incorporating oral traditions, and reconfiguring narrative structure. The occurrences contribute to postcolonial scholarship by integrating narratological analysis with ideological critique in a contrastive framework.