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  • 标题:Representing the Unspeakable Trauma: A Deleuzian Reading of Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness
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  • 作者:C-M Yang
  • 期刊名称:Arts and Social Sciences Journal
  • 电子版ISSN:2151-6200
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:2010
  • 出版社:AstonJournals
  • 摘要:This paper explores Conrad's Heart of Darknessto analyze Kurtz's ghastly vision of horror (trauma) and how he overcomes this traumatic experience throughthe metamorphosis of becoming-animal/savage in forming his lines of flight from the oedipalizing/oppressive capitalism and imperialism. To avoid following a conventional approach to study this novella, I explore Kurtz'sunspeakable horror that underlies a postmodern aesthetics of problematizing representation. To further unveil the strategies for (re)presenting Kurtz's unspeakable pain and horror, or to be more specific, the mysterious vision that overwhelms him right before he dies, I apply the Deleuzian conception of the "impossible writing"¡ªa writing strategy that ischaracteristic of minor literature/writing¡ªto analyze Marlow's narrativization, for it happens to highlight Marlow's impasse, just like Kafka's, that bars him access to writing for Kurtz's outrageous experience and vision and thus turns this narration/writing into something impossible
  • 关键词:Deleuzian;deterritorialization;Heart of Darkness;oedipalizing;impossible writing
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