解读康拉德小说中殖民话语的矛盾

An Interpretation of the Ambivalence in J. Conrad's Colonial Discourse

本文通过对《黑暗的心灵》和《吉姆爷》的文本进行分析 ,揭示约瑟夫·康拉德殖民话语的矛盾性。同时又对康拉德的冒险小说以及他对“他者”形象的塑造进行剖析 。

This paper reveals the ambivalence of Joseph Conrad's colonial discourse by analyzing two of his texts Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim . The paper points out that as a writer of the Britain Empire at its peak, Conrad is sober enough to disclose in his writings the hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the colonialists. At the same time, by examining Conrad's adoption of a special genre of fictionthe British adventure story and his imagery of 'the other', this paper also displays Conrad's defense, to some degree, of the western ideology that supports colonialism.