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Article: Marlow's neo-colonial avatars: mapping the postmodern interior.
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- Conradiana
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, a wide variety of readers, whether "implied," "ideal," "postcolonial, or "other," have read and reread Joseph Conrad's texts, helping both to shape and to critique our twentieth and now twenty-first century culture. In the last sixteen years, two European readers have written Conrad into their own literary works, inviting their contemporary audiences to interpret--through a perspective informed by Conrad--issues central to our new global society, wherein Empire is "the sovereign that governs the world" (Hardt and Negri xi). Examining Uwe Timm's Der Schlangenbaum (The Snake Tree) (1986) and Aleksandar Hemon's The Question of Bruno ...