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• W1953381780 abstract "You couldn't see that there was anything wrong with him: a nigger does not show. (The of the Narcissus 32, italics added) I. The Problem of Meaning The of the Narcissus Critics as disparate as Ian Watt and Fredric Jameson have asserted that Joseph Conrad's preface to The of the first published 1897, provides one of the inaugural manifestos of literary modernism due to the ideas regarding language and representation that it sets forth. (1) Given the interest that both the novel itself and the short, seemingly inconsequential, preface have generated, it interesting that the concept of race has so persistently escaped these discussions. Further, this elision seems noteworthy given the central importance of the overly racialized body of James Wait, the Nigger of the title, both the novel and the preface. Although Wait's identifying feature the title, the preface, and the story itself his blackness, his racial status customarily rendered irrelevant to the considerations of language and representation that are inspired by the book. (2) This critical blindness seems all the more significant if we consider Conrad's own fascination with the character of Wait the preface, and the centrality of Wait's body to Conrad's inquiry into issues of literary representation within the novel itself. In fact, we could say that the question of meaning within the novel centers on Wait's black body, and that this question takes shape strictly relation to his body's resistance to being inscribed with any stable meaning. As the narrator states toward the beginning of the voyage of the Narcissus, no one could tell what was the meaning of that black man sitting apart a meditative attitude and as motionless as a carving (33, italics added). Wait's body resistant to meaning, and it around this body and relation to this resistance that questions of meaning unfold within the story. Conrad consistently attentive to the fundamental but paradoxical role of Wait within his story. In the preface, he writes that in the book he [Wait] nothing; he merely the centre of the collective psychology and the pivot of the action ... the book [is] written round him (xlv). In these remarks, Wait's role the formation of the community of the ship presented as both contradictory and necessary. As the strangely absent inaugural point of the ship's collective psychology, Wait nothing, but he simultaneously the center of the action. Wait is, other words, the absent center within the community of sailors. Conrad's emotionally ambivalent description of Wait further reinforces his role as a central fetish around which the community revolves. Within the preface, Wait first described as imposter of some character ... scornful of triumphing over suspicions (xlv). Despite Wait's triumphant scorn, which inspires both fear and disdain, the writer notes in the family circle and amongst my friends Wait, who is familiarly referred to as The Nigger, remains to me (xlv). This very precious object that inspires both resentment and affection shown to be the constitutive exclusion around which Conrad's community forms, even these short passages. Conrad first opposes Wait to the us the construction mastering scornful of triumphing over suspicions; his function, within this sentence, that of the abject, excluded object, inspiring ambivalence, around which the group of chums coheres (xlv italics added). Moreover, the reiteration of the word our this passage would seem to represent an attempt to shore up this community against the outsider through sheer repetition. With each our we witness the endeavor to exclude another aspect of Conrad's imagined community from Wait: he does not share the community's compassion, sentimentalism, or suspicions. …" @default.
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• W1953381780 title "Racial Fantasy in Joseph Conrad’s Nigger of the “Narcissus”" @default.
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