- Tytuł:
- Identity, Fidelity, and Cross-Cultural Relationships in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly
- Autorzy:
- McParland, Robert
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2049070.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021-10-06
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
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Joseph Conrad
Almayer
Malay
Europe
identity
narrative
fidelity
ethics
cross-cultural
colonial - Opis:
- Almayer’s Folly (1896) by Joseph Conrad challenged the conventions of the fictional romance while confronting the need of native-born Malayans and other Asian individuals to find voice and identity in an imperial context. Along with the narrative voice in this text are the many other voices of those who have been colonized. Fidelity to one’s identity and openness to relationships across cultures lies at the crux of this study. Conrad’s critics of the 1950s and 1960s dismissed his first novel as a romance with a weak subplot. However, that subplot, about Almayer’s daughter Nina and her love affair, sets forth moral claims of loyalty and fidelity that must be taken into account. For her relation- ship with a Malay prince expresses a love that is binding and enduring, one that crosses boundaries and divisions and is an apt model for our culturally convergent world. Conrad creates a dialectic of intercultural subjectivities to make a point about identity, loyalty, and self-fashioning. Whereas Almayer is portrayed as foolish and inflexible, his daughter, Nina, faces significant issues of identity, as she has to choose between the traditional, indigenous heritage of her mother and her father’s modern European aspirations. With Almayer’s Folly, Joseph Conrad showed himself to be an international novelist who could develop a story with an inter-racial and intercultural cast of characters.
- Źródło:
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies; 2021, 30(1); 97-109
0860-5734 - Pojawia się w:
- Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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