AN AMBIVALENT CONRAD IN AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS
Öz
The present paper aims to
portray the racist and anti-racist dimensions of Joseph Conrad in his short
story “An Outpost of Progress” (1897). Conrad’s alleged racist status espoused
by thinkers such as Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, particularly in Heart of Darkness, has constantly been
the subject of heated debates in literature. A myriad of analogous traces in
the short story “An Outpost of Progress” lend Conrad’s voice to a highly racist
position while many other anti-racist traces observed in the story could lower
the resonance of the same voice, hence an inconclusive ambivalence or a liminal
position in Conrad’s tone. This paper is thus divided into two sections. The
first section has the racist traces of Conrad in the short story on top of its
agenda whereas the second section ventures into the anti-racist footprints of
Conrad’s voice in the story. In so doing, this paper sets out to turn to Achebe
and Said in arguing for the racist position of Conrad; however, the anti-racist
facets of the story will be substantiated via relying on the arguments
developed by thinkers such as D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke and Benita Parry. An
ironic ambivalence swaying from a racist tone to an anti-racist tone in
Conrad’s voice in “An Outpost of Progress” is the conclusive maxim.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Majid Sadeghzadegan
Bu kişi benim
Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Haziran 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
29 Mart 2017
Kabul Tarihi
12 Haziran 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Sayı: 37