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1、PreemptingPostcolonialCritique:EuropeansintheHeartofDarknessClendinnen,Inga.CommonKnowledge,Volume13,Issue1,Winter2007,pp.1-17(Article)PublishedbyDukeUniversityPressForadditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ckn/summary/v013/13.1clendinnen.htmlAccessProvidedbyBT

2、CAUniversitatdeBarcelonaat03/16/1112:15PMGMTCOLUMNSPREEMPTINGPOSTCOLONIALCRITIQUEEuropeansintheHeartofDarknessIngaClendinnenIconfessthatIhavealreadyparticipatedinthisjournal’ssymposium“ImperialTrauma.”Havingreadthecontributionsofmysymposiumcolleagues,IfoundthatIwantedtocontributeagain—wh

3、ichishowsymposiaaremeanttowork,andrarelydo.InaccordancewiththeobligingcollegialspiritofCommonKnowl-edge,theeditorinvitedmetodoso.Ithankhim.Thesymposiumtopicencouragedreflectiononthetraumasofempire:thedeformationsofthoughtandactioneffectedbythepossessionofrealorappar-entpoweroveralienother

4、s.Ithasprovedtobearomancandleissue,seething,hissing,andshootingsparksoveranexpandingarea.InmyearlieressayItracedthesubtledeformationofprincipleandjudgmentinanunusuallyuprightandself-criticalAustraliananthropologistbyexamininghistangledrelationshipwithhisAboriginalinformants.1NowIwanttofo

5、cusonanearliertime,andonadif-ferentvenue(Africa)andadifferentdiscipline(literarycriticism),toexploretheramificationsandreverberationsofthemostfamousfictionalstatementofthatincandescingtheme:JosephConrad’sclassic“colonial”novel,HeartofDarkness.1.IngaClendinnen,“ThePowertoFrustrateGoodInten-

6、tions;or,TheRevengeoftheAborigines,”CommonKnowl-edge11.3(Fall2005):410–31.CommonKnowledge13:1DOI10.1215/0961754X-2006-025©2007byDukeUniversityPress121FromitsbeginningsHeartofDarknesshasbeenvariouslyandpassionatelyinter-preted.Itsfirstaudience,alittlemorethanahundredyearsago,readitasacom-p

7、ellingdramatizationofthedifferencesbetweentwo(crudelyopposed)modesofimperialism:high-mindedBritishversusmoney-grubbingBelgian.Fiftyyearson,E.M.Forsterwasignoringthepoliticsandfindingthecraftsmanwant-ing:Conradwas“mistyinthemiddleaswellasattheedges,”his“philosophy”wasmoremu