Conrad, Joseph

This dissertation takes a spatially informed approach to works set in the Imperial Malay World. The primary texts examined include Max Havelaar (1859) by Multatuli, Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad, The Ten Thousand Things (1958) by Maria Dermoût, and various works including the…

Drawing together various rubrics from Postcolonial Studies and Asian Studies, this dissertation examines the colonial travel narratives of three British writers who shaped the ideological construct of "Malaya" for the British reading public from the late nineteenth century onwar…

Conrad juxtaposes Western culture with its native counterpart in order to formulate a vision that can guide the alienated individual who has lost his connection with his own nature, his family, and his society. Unlike many of his contemporaries who only describe this miserable h…