Oueld Ahmed Fatima2024-02-082024-02-082020-11-28http://dspace.univ-khenchela.dz:4000/handle/123456789/331This article is dedicated to the analysis of the racist ideology in literary discourse. Taking clues from discourse historical approach that explained the required discursive strategies in analyzing discourse, the present research examines the different ways in which stereotypes can be encoded in the language of literary texts as well as it investigates the linguistic manifestation of racist beliefs in the language of discourse. The study provides descriptive analysis of different lexical terms and linguistic structures in the literary text ‘ Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad to offer insights into the way language affects thought. Doing the analysis, we make an attempt to apply the five discursive strategies proposed by Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak (2001) to explain the linguistic manifestation of stereotypes. The results of the study revealed that the text is a kind of discourse that creates and reproduces racism with a view to establish a kind of polarization between the ingroup and the outgroup. This racist ideology that dominates the colonial narrative tends to establish social inequality, power, dominance, and discrimination.enArticle