1. Arudhathi Roy
The reference to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad occurs many times, but most notably in chapter five in the quote, "The old colonial bungalow with its deep verandah and Doric columns, was surrounded by smaller, older, wooden houses, "ancestral homes "that the hotel chain had bought from old families and transplanted in the Heart of Darkness."" ... In Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, she shows early in the book how a tourist is taken from the airport to his/her hotel by taxi. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate