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Going beyond limits: de-territorialization in Conrad's Novels.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20050922
Author:Acheraiou, Amar

Territoriality is a problematic concept which concentrates a network of signification embracing history and ideology, language and aesthetics. Addressing the issue of territoriality raises therefore the crucial question of Conrad's relation to space both as a geopolitical and aesthetic construction. One of the central preoccupations of this article is to trace how far Conrad's territoriality articulates principally around the ideology of dispossession, on the one hand, and the process of aestheticization on the other. More significantly, as Poland has become the "absent centre" ...

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