Lissa Schneider-Rebozo

Conrad's Narratives of Difference (eBook, ePUB)

Not Exactly Tales for Boys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Joseph Conrad's tales, representations of women and of "feminine" generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad's use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred introductions of female characters, and hybrid generic structures that combine features of "masculine" tales of adventure and intrigue and "feminine" dramas of love or domesticity are among the subjects of this literary study. Many of Conrad's critics have argued that Conrad's fictions are aesthetically flawed by the inclusion of women and love plots; thus Thomas Moser has questioned why Conrad did not "cut them out altogether." Yet a thematics of gender suffuses Conrad's narrative strategies. Even in tales that contain no significant female characters or obvious love plots, Conrad introduces elusive feminine presences, in relationships between men, as well as in men's relationships to their ship, the sea, a shore breeze, or even in the gendered embrace of death. This book investigates an identifiably feminine "point of view" which is present in fugitive ways throughout Conrad's canon. Conrad's narrative strategies are articulated through a language of sexual difference that provides the vocabulary and grammar for tales examining European class, racial, and gender paradigms to provide acute and, at times, equivocal investigations of femininity and difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136730726
• Artikelnr.: 40172420

Autorenporträt

Lissa Schneider-Rebozo is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity at University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Not Exactly Tales for Boys 1. Iconography and the Feminine Ideal: Torches
Blindfolds
and the "true light of femininity" in Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Rescue
and "The Return" 2. Plots and Performance: Conrad's "tricks with girls" in "Freya of the Seven Isles
" Under Western Eyes
An Outcast of the Islands
and The Rescue 3. Colonial Occupations: Race and Gender in "An Outpost of Progress" and The Nigger of the "Narcissus" 4. Politics in the House: Genre
Narrative
and the Domestic Drama in The Secret Agent
Heart of Darkness
and Lord Jim Coda: Narrative
Femininity
Death