Rhetorical Analysis Of David Denby's 'Jungle Fever'

David Denby's "Jungle Fever" was written as a dispute to Chinua Achebe's argument against the significance of Heart of Darkness. Achebe argued that Heart of Darkness supports the dehumanization of Africans which has helped fuel the Western discrimination against Africans. Denby creates an argument of how has significant importance to literature. Denby argues his point through his journey in a college classroom. Denby observes a Literature Humanities class at Columbia College that is reading Heart of Darkness. The instructors name is Professor Shapiro. Denby allows the reader to listen into the classroom discussion. "Who comes from a savage race?” is how the discussion kicks off. A student answered this question, saying "We all come from Africa",