Exiled Space and Political Agonism in Lord Jim
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The eponymous character of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim has often been explicated in term of individual subjectivity, epistemological impressionism, or temporal, historical becoming. I argue that the intercultural space of the fiction is designated as an ontological form for interaction and connectivity among different literary subjects even beyond the text. For this investigation, I appropriate a modernist notion of ‘spiritual exile,’ which more precisely elucidates the aesthetic significance of the protagonist’s positioning to others enacted in the outlandish setting. The fictional space of the novel embodies the locale of the character’s personal experience and also of the public interaction where different cultures clash. Just as Jim the protagonist undergoes exilic journey through the exotic spaces of the Patna and Patusan, so does Marlow in his narratorial exploration. In doing so, the readers constantly face the empty formality or the absent nature of the character’s positioning act as well as of the narrator’s engagement with others in and even around the text. In other words, the space of exile and political collision is represented as an empty and unknown realm where the different subjects voluntarily and/or involuntarily partake in agonistic struggles and conflicts while formulating a territory of lateral, not vertical or hierarchical, relationality. Further, their wanderings are closely entwined with Conrad’s own life as an outsider, in that the ontological condition of homelessness mobilizes aesthetic engagement and further political positioning and ontological remapping around it. Writing fictions like Lord Jim, for Conrad, embodies his artistic experimentation not only as a modernist exile, but also as a political minor.
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The eponymous character of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim has often been explicated in term of individual subjectivity, epistemological impressionism, or temporal, historical becoming. I argue that the intercultural space of the fiction is designated as an ontological form for interaction and connectivity among different literary subjects even beyond the text. For this investigation, I appropriate a modernist notion of ‘spiritual exile,’ which more precisely elucidates the aesthetic significance of the protagonist’s positioning to others enacted in the outlandish setting. The fictional space of the novel embodies the locale of the character’s personal experience and also of the public interaction where different cultures clash. Just as Jim the protagonist undergoes exilic journey through the exotic spaces of the Patna and Patusan, so does Marlow in his narratorial exploration. In doing so, the readers constantly face the empty formality or the absent nature of the character’s positioning act as well as of the narrator’s engagement with others in and even around the text. In other words, the space of exile and political collision is represented as an empty and unknown realm where the different subjects voluntarily and/or involuntarily partake in agonistic struggles and conflicts while formulating a territory of lateral, not vertical or hierarchical, relationality. Further, their wanderings are closely entwined with Conrad’s own life as an outsider, in that the ontological condition of homelessness mobilizes aesthetic engagement and further political positioning and ontological remapping around it. Writing fictions like Lord Jim, for Conrad, embodies his artistic experimentation not only as a modernist exile, but also as a political minor.
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