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White is the color of evil in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The horror is ivory. The coveted material fires the greed and stokes the chaos of the entire sprawling colonial project depicted in the novella. The lust for tusks has overtaken the Africans and their European colonizers. The tale’s narrator, Charles Marlow, is hired More 1
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org 4 and was authored by David Yearsley.