『암흑의 핵심』에 나타난 이데올로기의 작동방식
Revisiting Ideological Implications in Heart of Darkness
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The critical receptions regarding the political intention of Heart ofDarkness have been largely divided into two camps: one that extols its criticalattitude toward Belgian Colonialism in Congo, and the other that criticizes itscompliance with the latter. Instead of taking a side with either of these camps,this article aims to propose a new way of reading Heart of Darkness by focusingon the discursive function of ideology. The main focus on ideology has shiftedfrom a validating framework (i.e., truth/falsity) to a discursive one throughwhich the individual incorporates him/herself into the symbolic social order. This article attempts to demonstrate that this semiotic mechanism of ideologyis the fundamental element in understanding the political implications ofHeart of Darkness. It begins with the effort to dismantle the legitimacy thatcolonial discourse has acquired. In order to do so, the work challenges thestereotyped images of the colonized by imagining its identity not marred withthe Western gaze. This critical impulse, however, functions to reaffirm thecolonial idea of the Other. The author attempts to present the colonized asunrepresentable and thus beyond the boundary of Western hierarchy, but thisunrepresentability only brings out its mysterious and thus always-alreadyobjectified status. Taking this element into account, this article aims to showthat the reconfirmation of colonial discourse in this work is less the result ofConrad’s own limitation than a perfect witness to the working mechanism ofideology, in which semiotic representations come to re-articulate culturalvocabularies commonly used within the society and thus end up buttressingthe socially dominant value-system.
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The critical receptions regarding the political intention of Heart ofDarkness have been largely divided into two camps: one that extols its criticalattitude toward Belgian Colonialism in Congo, and the other that criticizes itscompliance with the latter. Instead of taking a side with either of these camps,this article aims to propose a new way of reading Heart of Darkness by focusingon the discursive function of ideology. The main focus on ideology has shiftedfrom a validating framework (i.e., truth/falsity) to a discursive one throughwhich the individual incorporates him/herself into the symbolic social order. This article attempts to demonstrate that this semiotic mechanism of ideologyis the fundamental element in understanding the political implications ofHeart of Darkness. It begins with the effort to dismantle the legitimacy thatcolonial discourse has acquired. In order to do so, the work challenges thestereotyped images of the colonized by imagining its identity not marred withthe Western gaze. This critical impulse, however, functions to reaffirm thecolonial idea of the Other. The author attempts to present the colonized asunrepresentable and thus beyond the boundary of Western hierarchy, but thisunrepresentability only brings out its mysterious and thus always-alreadyobjectified status. Taking this element into account, this article aims to showthat the reconfirmation of colonial discourse in this work is less the result ofConrad’s own limitation than a perfect witness to the working mechanism ofideology, in which semiotic representations come to re-articulate culturalvocabularies commonly used within the society and thus end up buttressingthe socially dominant value-system.
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