L' L'Epoque Conradienne, volume 36/2010

Tropes and the Tropics
Catherine DELMAS,Catherine VANDAMME
Revue
Époque conradienne (L')
Editeur
Presses universitaires de Limoges
Date de publication
25 avril 2011
Résumé
The present volume of L'Epoque Conradienne tackles the controversial question of Conrad's representation of the tropics and the way he managed to offer much more than a conventional orientalist tale and/or painting marred by the recurrent characteristics of the genre: binary thinking and underlying racism, reification under the guise of exotic aestheticisation or systematic recourse to generalisations, to quote but a few of its most salient features. Conrad, on the contrary, used tropes and the visual so as to reintroduce uncertainty and undecidability which, far from confiscating the gaze and the voice of colonised people in the tropics, enable the reader to sense the crack-up in the Westerner's own gaze and voice. Through repeated aesthetic turns of the screw, the imp ... Lire la suite
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ISSN 02946904
Crédit 20110401
Date de première publication du titre 25 avril 2011
ISBN 9782842875336
EAN-13 9782842875336
Référence EP036-29
Nombre de pages de contenu principal 124
Format 16 x 24 x .8 cm
Poids 216 g

Introduction:
Catherine DELMAS " Deconstructing Orientalism in Joseph Conrad's Malay novels ";

Josiane PACCAUD-HUGUET " The interaction of gaze and view in Conrad's fiction ";

Denise GINFRAY " " The light of magic suggestiveness " ou les miroitements du figural dans " The Planter of Malata " et The Shadow-Line ";

Véronique PAULY " "Like a painted ship on a painted sea": critique of images and critical images in Victory ";

Nathalie MARTINIERE " "I saw it looking at me": the East as vision in "Youth" ";

Christine VANDAMME " "The Planter of Malata" as a mock imperial romance – An ironic turn of the screw ";

Yannick LE BOULICAUT " From faithful recording to true expression: Conrad's treatment of perspective, depth of field and light in 'The Lagoon', The Rescue and 'The Secret Sharer' ";

Catherine DELESALLE-NANCEY " Framing the East in Conrad's "The Lagoon" and "Karain: a Memory" ";

Claude MAISONNAT " De-territorializing the Authorial Voice, Re-territorializing the Textual Voice in Victory ".

The present volume of L'Epoque Conradienne tackles the controversial question of Conrad's representation of the tropics and the way he managed to offer much more than a conventional orientalist tale and/or painting marred by the recurrent characteristics of the genre: binary thinking and underlying racism, reification under the guise of exotic aestheticisation or systematic recourse to generalisations, to quote but a few of its most salient features. Conrad, on the contrary, used tropes and the visual so as to reintroduce uncertainty and undecidability which, far from confiscating the gaze and the voice of colonised people in the tropics, enable the reader to sense the crack-up in the Westerner's own gaze and voice. Through repeated aesthetic turns of the screw, the imperialist oriental backcloth is being torn apart and the reader cannot but catch "that glimpse of truth for which [he has] forgotten to ask" (Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'). In this volume are gathered the papers given at the one-day conference organised jointly by the Société Conradienne Française and the CEMRA (EA 3016) at Stendhal University, Grenoble, December 4, 2009.

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