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"Here comes the Nazarene": Conrad's treatment of the Serani and the racial politics of empire.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20070922
Author:Yeow, Agnes

One morning in Patusan, Tamb' Itam, Lord Jim's "faithful and grim retainer," pointed at Cornelius and said: "Here comes the Nazarene." Marlow, who was there, remarked: "I don't think he was addressing me, though I stood at his side; his object seemed rather to awaken the indignant attention of the universe" (Lord 284-85). Inchi 'Nelyus as he is called by the Malays "with a grimace that meant many things" is an unappealing character invariably repulsive to all who come in contact with him, both white and brown (Lord 289). He is someone who might more appropriately fit Tom ...

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