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Heart of Darkness
- Historical + Political
- Colonialism
- Not just a histoical phenomenon! An
ideology: A way of seeing the world.
Here - There. Civilzation - Savage
- Misrepresentation of the Middle east
- Edward Said: 'Orientalism'. Historians/ literary
and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or
depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern.
- The West dominates and restricts
- The world is made up of
two unequal halves,
Orient and Occident)
- The West dominates and restricts
- The Subaltern: Kurtz mistress.
Vicariously viewed through
Conrad/Marlow, don't know her
perception
- Fanon says typical for the settler to
present the native as utterly evil
- Edward Said: 'Orientalism'. Historians/ literary
and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or
depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern.
- Shift in identifying with the colonized, when he effectively
becomes British he now becomes "colonizer"
- Almayers Folly
- Conrad may have been doing
something quite radical here
- Character of Nina (a half-caste) in a white community
- Conrad may have been doing
something quite radical here
- Almayers Folly
- Not just a histoical phenomenon! An
ideology: A way of seeing the world.
Here - There. Civilzation - Savage
- Racism
- Achebe says that it is (perceived) as necessary
for Western psychology to set up Africa as a
foil to Europe
- 'The other world'
- An antithesis of Europe + civilization
- An antithesis of Europe + civilization
- 'Prehistoric earth'
- Denounced a 'bloody racist'
- Was he racist?
- Najder: could feel 'solidarity' with Marlowe while
'maintaining distance'
- The character is in fact a distancing device.
- The character is in fact a distancing device.
- Najder: could feel 'solidarity' with Marlowe while
'maintaining distance'
- 'The other world'
- Achebe says that it is (perceived) as necessary
for Western psychology to set up Africa as a
foil to Europe
- During the century people were recognizing the
difference between the (often religious or idealistic )
propaganda of imperialism and the extents of its
exploitation
- Can a texts be read
as timeless
autonomous entities..
OR serve political
interest
- To reconstruct Eurocentric
and patriarchal binarisms
- To reconstruct Eurocentric
and patriarchal binarisms
- Colonialism
- Narrative
- 'My task which I am trying to achieve is, by
the power of the written word is to make you
hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to
make you see'
- 'See' = implies readers visualization. To
create understanding.
- 'Life did not narrate, but mode impressions on our brains.'
- Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad: A Personal
Rememberance
- 'See' = implies readers visualization. To
create understanding.
- Delayed decoding
- The writer confronts us with effect while with holding knowledge of its course.
Eventual explanation may not erase strong impression of events strangeness
(partic. HOD = Heads on stakes)
- 'These round knobs were not oramental... those
heads on stakes... I was not so shocked as you may
think'
- Trying to cling to the familiar. But seems the strange has become familiar/
familiar strange.
- Casual, nonchalant acknowledge
- Trying to cling to the familiar. But seems the strange has become familiar/
familiar strange.
- 'These round knobs were not oramental... those
heads on stakes... I was not so shocked as you may
think'
- Is at the novels core.
- 'Maintain general atmosphere of pointless activity; while the plot, when we eventually percieve it,
makes a bitter comment on the evolutionary doctrine of the 'survival of the fittest + politcal doctrine that
the white man has a moral right to rule Africa' A Preface to Conrad - Cedric Watts
- 'Maintain general atmosphere of pointless activity; while the plot, when we eventually percieve it,
makes a bitter comment on the evolutionary doctrine of the 'survival of the fittest + politcal doctrine that
the white man has a moral right to rule Africa' A Preface to Conrad - Cedric Watts
- The writer confronts us with effect while with holding knowledge of its course.
Eventual explanation may not erase strong impression of events strangeness
(partic. HOD = Heads on stakes)
- Impressionism
- Conrad
contrast to
Victorian
Lit, realism
- To be realistic is to
represent actual
impression
(including every
sensation)
- To be
realistic is to
represent
actual
impression
(including
every
sensation)
- Conrad
contrast to
Victorian
Lit, realism
- Nested Narrative - 'Story within a story'
- A meandering narrative, deffering from what we
most want to know/see, Conrad's evasiveness in
full play.
- A meandering narrative, deffering from what we
most want to know/see, Conrad's evasiveness in
full play.
- 'My task which I am trying to achieve is, by
the power of the written word is to make you
hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to
make you see'
- Modernism
- Quoted himself as 'modern'
- In it's essence [my work] is action... action of human beings that will bleed to a
prick, and are moving in a visible word' Letters II, P.418
- Stape in The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad argues: 'realism' made his
modernism. Letter associates with realism, while Kurtz' perception of 'horror' like that of
T.S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men', still clings to the nineteenth century image of the hero. Lord
Jim = Tales of heroic self-justification
- Stape in The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad argues: 'realism' made his
modernism. Letter associates with realism, while Kurtz' perception of 'horror' like that of
T.S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men', still clings to the nineteenth century image of the hero. Lord
Jim = Tales of heroic self-justification
- In it's essence [my work] is action... action of human beings that will bleed to a
prick, and are moving in a visible word' Letters II, P.418
- The intrinsic
factors:
Satiric verse
Multiple
narrations
and p.o.v its
paradoxicality
- Anticipates postm.
- Weakens sense of the world
- Narrative, time and geography dominated by Europe
- Narrative, time and geography dominated by Europe
- Weakens sense of the world
- Quoted himself as 'modern'
- Conflicts and Paradoxes
- Civilization can be barbaric
- Awareness is better than
unawareness, but soon becomes
more beneficial to remain ignorant
- Association with white and black is exploited
- The city being 'sepulchral'
- London 'brooding gloom'
- Ivory trade
- Back in London is hints of it 'grand piano stood massively in
the corner, dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a sombre and
polished sarcophagus
- Paradox from oxymoron 'dark
gleams'
- Symbol of death
- Paradox from oxymoron 'dark
gleams'
- Back in London is hints of it 'grand piano stood massively in
the corner, dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a sombre and
polished sarcophagus
- The city being 'sepulchral'
- Dichotomies: a contrast between things
- Light/dark, good/evil, fear/fascination
- Light/dark, good/evil, fear/fascination
- Civilization can be barbaric
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