“Honourable Disaster”: Conrad and Nostalgic Militarism in “The Lagoon” and “Karain: A Memory”
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Joseph Conrad’s Malay short fiction has been rightly criticized for the way that it constructs orientalist discourses about non-European characters. This article, however, deals with a different side of the workings of ideology: not ideological mystification, but rather ideological projection. I argue that Conrad’s conservative criticisms of modernity led him to posit through his fiction that what was being lost in the West could be found again in the East. Specifically, I bring together Conrad’s critiques of modernity in his non-fiction with two of his short stories, “Karain: A Memory” and “The Lagoon,” to focus on the military values and notions of masculine “honour” that Conrad sought to maintain through his non-European characters. In doing so, I bring out the investments that Western romantic conservatives like Conrad had in the creation of non-European characters and argue that these characters do not only serve the ends of orientalism, but also function as a site for propagating nostalgic militarism.
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Joseph Conrad’s Malay short fiction has been rightly criticized for the way that it constructs orientalist discourses about non-European characters. This article, however, deals with a different side of the workings of ideology: not ideological mystification, but rather ideological projection. I argue that Conrad’s conservative criticisms of modernity led him to posit through his fiction that what was being lost in the West could be found again in the East. Specifically, I bring together Conrad’s critiques of modernity in his non-fiction with two of his short stories, “Karain: A Memory” and “The Lagoon,” to focus on the military values and notions of masculine “honour” that Conrad sought to maintain through his non-European characters. In doing so, I bring out the investments that Western romantic conservatives like Conrad had in the creation of non-European characters and argue that these characters do not only serve the ends of orientalism, but also function as a site for propagating nostalgic militarism.
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