Into the heart of light: Barbara Kingsolver rereads Heart of Darkness. From: Conradiana | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2002 Texas Tech University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 novel, The Poisonwood Bible, is not a literal retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but Conrad's novella

is present as a kind of pre-text of the novel (literally, since it appears in the novel's bibliography)--and it echoes throughout The Poisonwood Bible in a number of interesting ways. The Poisonwood Bible is, first of all, set in the Congo and has the same general plot movement as Heart of Darkness: white characters from a highly industrialized western country travel deep into the heart of Africa, are dramatically changed by that ...

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