The Emergence of Postcolonial Criticism (original) (raw)

This paper examines the effect postcolonial criticism has had upon critical writings on Joseph Conrad"s Heart of Darkness. In this paper, seven papers and thesis are studied; among which three of them have New Criticism and Psychoanalytic Criticism as their critical methodology. The other four essays, however, analyse the work by the use of postcolonial approach. The aim of this paper is to reveal the fact that whereas essays with other critical approaches than postcolonial criticism study elements within the work and are not affected by the historical, cultural or social contexts of their time, postcolonial essays focus upon cultural, social and historical contexts of the time in which the work was created and consider its creator (author) as responsible for either the positive or negative sense that it has produced in the present era.