‘A story of a magnificent savage’: interrogating alterity in Joseph Conrad’s Karain: a memory

On 7 February 1897, Conrad wrote to Edward Garnett: “I am thinking of a short story. Something like the [sic] Lagoon but with less description. A Malay thing. It will be easy and may bring a few pence” (Karl & Davies 198 : 338). Despite some early criticism of its lush exotic evocations of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harry Sewlall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2010-12-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1266