The Cameroonian author Léonora Miano alluded to this novel in the title of her novel about Ayané returning to her birthplace. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel by Joseph Conrad, often analyzed in postcolonial studies, in which Charles Marlow travels to find the ivory trader Kurtz.
ANSWER: Heart of Darkness (Miano's novel is Dark Heart of the Night.)
[10m] This essay discusses the ways Heart of Darkness depicts Africa as an uncivilized "foil to Europe". This Chinua Achebe essay was included in his collection Hopes and Impediments.
ANSWER: "An Image of Africa"
[10h] In "An Image of Africa", Achebe quotes a racist passage in which Conrad describes a man in this non-African country. A novel from this country depicts a girl's trauma after being examined by her mother to confirm her virginity.
ANSWER: Haiti [Republic of Haiti] (The novel is Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat.)
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