'A Choice of Nightmares': Narration and desire in Heart of Darkness

IF 1.2 2区社会学 Q3 GEOGRAPHY

Gender Place and Culture Pub Date : 1996-09-01 DOI:10.1080/09663699625568

C. Barnett

引用次数: 15

Abstract

This paper considers the gendered organisation of narration in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It is argued that the text fictionalises its audience as an exclusively masculine community of readers, bounded together by shared interests and commitments. The discursive construction of preferred reading positions is critically examined with reference to the mobilisation of discourses of cannibalism and representations of femininity in the text. It is argued that positive evaluations of the text, as a critique of imperialism or a commentary on the human condition, are problematised by consideration of the gender values inscribed in the texture of the narrative.

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“噩梦的选择”:《黑暗之心》中的叙事与欲望

本文考察了约瑟夫·康拉德《黑暗的心》中叙事的性别组织。有人认为，文本将其读者虚构为一个完全男性化的读者群体，由共同的兴趣和承诺联系在一起。优选的阅读位置的话语结构是严格审查参考动员的食人话语和女性在文本中的表现。有人认为，对文本的积极评价，作为对帝国主义的批判或对人类状况的评论，由于考虑到叙事结构中所包含的性别价值而存在问题。

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Gender Place and Culture Multiple-

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4.30

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： The aim of Gender, Place and Culture is to provide a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues. It also seeks to highlight the significance of such research for feminism and women"s studies. The editors seek articles based on primary research that address: the particularities and intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexuality, class, culture and place; feminist, anti-racist, critical and radical geographies of space, place, nature and the environment; feminist geographies of difference, resistance, marginality and/or spatial negotiation; and, critical methodology.