Critical Insights offers superb essays by exceptionally credentialed current literary scholars with thoroughly daunting professional histories: Amar Acheraïou, Robert C. Evans, Pei-Wen Clio Kao, Guido Laino; Joseph R, Lease, Gene M. Moore, David Mulry, John G. Peters, Jean M. Szczypien, Nicolas Tredell; Cedric Watts, and Yolanda York. This review discusses, perforce cursorily, the editor Robert Evans's work and only six salient exemplars of major critical approaches: historical, ethical, bibliographical, aesthetic, intertextual, and semiotic.
After the editor's introductory note succinctly summarizing the volume's content, a pleasingly readable “flagship” essay by John G. Peters recounts his revisitings of Heart of Darkness (hereinafter abbreviated as HD), each revealing a dimension of the novella (pp. xiii–xxi): the self, colonialism, memory, language, HD's future, and continuing relevance.
A Critical Contexts section commences with the editor's description of Sidney Hinde's The Fall of the Congo Arabs, a little-known account of Arab and native...
