| Memory plays and interesting role in deciding the fate of narratives and significantly changes the meaning the text tries to establish. Memory in postcolonial literature also succumbs to such overwhelming power of memory in texts. Memory though may sound an innocent word but is in fact very political which has been well ascertained by the different examinations of the colo nial and postcolonial texts. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a similar text but with a slight twist, it is difficult to place the text in the either of the two categories- colonial or postcolonial. With the multiple levels of narration, this unique narrative strategy disguises the real intention of the text and causing it to blame Conrad a terrible racist and a sympathizer of the natives by others. But this paper intends to study the politics of memory in the text which should reveal which party Conrad sided with. Though it may not be a conclusive answer or solution to the problem but separating the narrators from the writer of the text may be able to lead us to the truth. |