Episode 180: Heart of Darkness Part IV - The Earth Seemed Unearthly
"The earth seemed unearthly." The character of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness is one of the most enigmatic depictions of villainy in modern times. By the time Marlow reaches Kurtz' compound, his reality h...
25 Elo 31min
Episode 179: Heart of Darkness Part III - Belief and Reality
As Marlow travels deeper into the heart of darkness, we get our first look at the enigmatic Kurtz. At first just a peripheral figure who is important to the ivory collection operation of the nameless ...
4 Elo 20min
Episode 178: Heart of Darkness Part II - Ideological Mimesis
As Marlow prepares for his journey to the Congo, he visits a psychiatrist who gives him his first glimpse at what he is getting himself into. His introduction into the pseudoscience of phrenology is a...
14 Heinä 33min
Episode 177: Heart of Darkness Part I - The Paradox of History
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is both a scathing critique of European imperialism and a reminder that all humans have the capacity to succumb to the heart of darkness. It also is not withou...
23 Kesä 30min
Episode 176: The Young Will Remember with Eve J. Chung
In this episode I'm joined by author Eve J. Chung to discuss her latest book The Young Will Remember, a historical fiction novel set during the Korean War. We discuss her book, different historical na...
2 Kesä 52min
Episode 175: Congo's Nightmare Part VII - The Great Forgetting
The Congo Free State eventually dissolved, but what does it mean to us today? How did we collectively forget a tragedy on this scale? Why do some historical stories get buried in the sands of time whi...
12 Touko 24min
Episode 174: Congo's Nightmare Part VI - The End of the Congo Free State
As atrocities and human rights violations continue in the Congo Free State, King Leopold II of Belgium sends out a "Commission of Inquiry" to the Congo to clear his name. Things don't go as planned. A...
21 Huhti 34min
Episode 173: Congo's Nightmare Part V - Shadow War
As the evidence of atrocities in the Congo Free State became impossible to ignore, direct African resistance developed in numerous places around the Congo. As this was happening, a large and sophistic...
31 Maalis 28min
