ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 reads Winwood Reade’s short story “Hollowayphobia” and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, as texts that uncover Africa as glocal space in a global economy. Moving away from established critical approaches to Conrad’s novel as a work that addresses Africa as Dark Continent, the chapter posits that Reade and Conrad reveal Africa as an intersectional space that poses new ethical and existential challenges for the traveler, whose narrative is entangled with exploration discourse.
