...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. 45 44 The addition of a portrait medallion of the prince-bishop made it necessary to transpose Mercury...

..."through the green fuse drives the flower"). As Conrad remarks, "the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (578). Conrad feels some ambivalence about this African Queen, but nevertheless presents her as Anima...

...more evident in Marlow's representation of the African woman at the Inner Station: 'the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul' (HD, p. 99). Johanna M. Smith has noted how the jungle's absorption of Kurtz is imaged as 'sexual cannibalism':...

...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul (103, italics added). Clearly the black woman is yet another representative of the fertile Earth Mother,...

...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. 2 This powerful passage synthesizes elements of Byron's prophetically androgynous poem "Darkness" with...

...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (Y 136). The land is anthropomorphized; the African woman is de-humanized. By making the African woman...

...and magnificent . . . the colossal body of the fecund and mystetious life seemed to look at het ... as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebtous and passionate soul" (60). The text equates black women with bodily excess and "natute" so...

...glittered and trembled at every step. (76f.) Wenn es an dieser Stelle heißt: "[...] the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (76), dann legt die Formulierung nahe, daß nicht Kurtz, sondern die afrikanische Frau das 'Herz der...

...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. (1975:87) Thus, from the beginning of the colonial period till its end (and beyond), female bodies...

...hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at...stood still, and faced us. Her long shadow fell to the waters edge. Her face had a tragic and fierce aspect of wild sorrow and of dumb pain mingled with the...