“Wine in Old and New Bottles’: Critical Paradigms for Joseph Conrad, “Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

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2013-01-01

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Doğan, Buket

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In “The Lagoon,” as Saidobserves, Arsat’s reflection upon his past tries to illuminate what has been souncomfortably mysterious to him (89). From Bhabha’s viewpoint, Arsat’s odysseycan best be explained with the help of the terms unhomely and/or uncanny. ForBhabha, to be unhomed does not necessarily mean to be literally homeless; onthe contrary, the unhomely or uncanny moment can take over you at any momentstealthily. Although Arsat physically has home, he feels unhomed being exiledfrom his familiar surroundings after he betrays his own brother and his Malayanfellows. He finds himself dominated by this uncanny feeling. Seeing himself in theeyes of Arsat, who has acted like a colonizer, Tuan, too, notices his uncannydouble in this Malayan man. According to George Panichas, Conrad’s works“explore and make known what takes place when the physical and metaphysicalregions of intellect and emotion intersect and interconnect” (viii). Both Arsatand Tuan have faced the unhomely moment seeing their uncanny doubles in eachother. In the end, it becomes evident that the boundaries of the notions ofcolonizer and colonized have been blurred uncannily in “The Lagoon.”

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Joseph Conrad, "The Lagoon", Homi Bhabha, uncanny, postcolonial discourse

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B. Doğan, “Wine in Old and New Bottles’: Critical Paradigms for Joseph Conrad, “Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives. 2013.