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Books that would be called woke if they came out today

>> No.23183900

>>23183896
Locke
Hume
Kant

>> No.23183904

>>23183896
>Heart of Darkness is criticised in postcolonial studies, particularly by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. In his 1975 public lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", Achebe described Conrad's novella as "an offensive and deplorable book" that de-humanised Africans
>Achebe argued that Conrad, "blinkered ... with xenophobia", incorrectly depicted Africa as the antithesis of Europe and civilisation, ignoring the artistic accomplishments of the Fang people who lived in the Congo River basin at the time of the book's publication
>He argued that the book promoted and continues to promote a prejudiced image of Africa that "depersonalises a portion of the human race" and concluded that it should not be considered a great work of art
It gets seen as the complete opposite nowadays and would get seen as the complete opposite of woke even if it came out today. You are retarded

>> No.23184034

>>23183904
Spbp, reality is the opposite of what OP implies it to be as per usual, so OP should shut the fuck up

>> No.23184101

>>23183896
Almost everything by Michael Moorcock. Eternal Champion especially.

>> No.23184109

>>23183904
based and true

>> No.23185170

>>23183896
this has to be the most misunderstood novella ever written

>> No.23185235

>>23185170
how do you think people usually understand it and what do you think is the correct interpretation?

>> No.23185512

>>23185235
the correct way is how i interpret it and the wrong way is how people that understand it differently interpret it

>> No.23185523

>>23185512
Holy based.

>> No.23185525

>>23183904
True

>> No.23185530

>>23185235
The correct way is that colonialism/universalism reduces the European man to a raving genocidal beast; angered by by the incapacity of those he attempts to eleventate. Thus FOR THE SAKE OF THE EUROPEAN MAN it ought be abandoned.
The incorrect way is the base “colonialism bad”