TY - JOUR

T1 - Joseph Conrad's Objects

AU - Hampson, Robert

PY - 2019/10/1

Y1 - 2019/10/1

N2 - The essay begins with cultural artefacts and commodities in Almayer's Folly, objects as part of the novel's narrative semantics; it then proceeds through the circulation of commodities in 'Heart of Darkness' and the object as fetish in An Outcast of the islands; it then offers a reading of 'An Outpost of Progress' as a way of exploring further the anthropological concept of the fetish. The final partts of the essay consider commodity fetishism in relation to Nostromo, the object of perception in 'Heart of Darkness', and the aesthetic object in The Arrow of Gold.

AB - The essay begins with cultural artefacts and commodities in Almayer's Folly, objects as part of the novel's narrative semantics; it then proceeds through the circulation of commodities in 'Heart of Darkness' and the object as fetish in An Outcast of the islands; it then offers a reading of 'An Outpost of Progress' as a way of exploring further the anthropological concept of the fetish. The final partts of the essay consider commodity fetishism in relation to Nostromo, the object of perception in 'Heart of Darkness', and the aesthetic object in The Arrow of Gold.

KW - Joseph Conrad

KW - cultural artefacts

KW - salvage anthropology

KW - ethnographic gaze

KW - commodity

KW - Almayer's Folly

KW - GLOBALIZATION

KW - Heart of Darkness

KW - Huntley and Palmer biscuit tins

KW - fetish

KW - An outcast of the islands

KW - An Outpost of Progress

KW - Karain

KW - the talisman

KW - minkisis

KW - Sierra Leone

KW - Liverpool Museum

KW - commodity fetishism

KW - Nostromo

KW - aesthetic object

KW - The Arrow of Gold

U2 - 10.4000/fathom.970

DO - 10.4000/fathom.970

M3 - Article

VL - 6

SP - 1

EP - 16

JO - FATHOM

JF - FATHOM

ER -