Current Search: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 (x)
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Title
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Revis(it)ing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: women, symbolism, and resistance.
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Creator
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Smith, Kathryn M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is, admittedly, a text with many racist, imperialist and sexist subtexts. A feminist literary analysis, however, can extract women's empowerment and agency. This thesis takes a closer look at the Mistress (also known as the African woman) and the Intended, two women with vastly different racial and class backgrounds who, in their own ways, demonstrate resistance. This thesis analyzes Mr. Kurtz's often ignored sketch in oils, arguing that the sketch itself...
Show moreJoseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is, admittedly, a text with many racist, imperialist and sexist subtexts. A feminist literary analysis, however, can extract women's empowerment and agency. This thesis takes a closer look at the Mistress (also known as the African woman) and the Intended, two women with vastly different racial and class backgrounds who, in their own ways, demonstrate resistance. This thesis analyzes Mr. Kurtz's often ignored sketch in oils, arguing that the sketch itself demonstrates the colonial mentality of difference and the disruption of that difference. It then explores both the Mistress and the Intended in detail, positing that while the Mistress uses the colonizers' fear of the wilderness and its silence to her advantage, the Intended takes control over her own domestic circumstance. Overall, this author asserts that the Mistress and the Intended, while often dismissed, are noteworthy, important, and influential characters in Heart of Darkness.
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Date Issued
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2009
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192989
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Feminism in literature, Racism in literature, Imperialism in literature, Literature and society, Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
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Vietnam and the legacy of Conrad.
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Creator
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Gabel, Jill Stacy., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Abstract/Description
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A mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of...
Show moreA mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of imperialism, the conflict of Western and non-Western values, the interplay of fantasy and reality, and the nature of moral confession, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, and Dispatches aim to force their audiences to confront the responsibility of all mankind for the horrors of war.
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Date Issued
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1992
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14881
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Subject Headings
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Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation., Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.--Heart of darkness., Coppola, Francis Ford,--1939---Apocalypse now., Herr, Michael.--Dispatches., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the conflict.
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Document (PDF)
