%0 Journal Article
%T Representing The Unspeakable Trauma: A Deleuzian Reading Of Conrad¡¯s Heart Of Darkness
%A Che-ming Yang
%J Arts and Social Sciences Journal
%D 2010
%I AstonJournals
%X This paper explores Conrad¡¯s Heart of Darkness to analyze Kurtz¡¯s ghastly vision of horror (trauma) and how he overcomes this traumaticexperience through the metamorphosis of becoming-animal/savage in forming his lines of flight from the oedipalizing/oppressive capitalismand imperialism. To avoid following a conventional approach to study this novella, I explore Kurtz¡¯s unspeakable horror that underlies apostmodern aesthetics of problematizing representation. To further unveil the strategies for (re)presenting Kurtz¡¯s unspeakable pain andhorror, or to be more specific, the mysterious vision that overwhelms him right before he dies, I apply the Deleuzian conception of the¡°impossible writing¡±¡ªa writing strategy that is characteristic of minor literature/writing¡ªto analyze Marlow¡¯s narrativization, for it happensto highlight Marlow¡¯s impasse, just like Kafka¡¯s, that bars him access to writing for Kurtz¡¯s outrageous experience and vision and thus turnsthis narration/writing into something impossible.
%K Deleuzian
%K deterritorialization
%K Heart of Darkness
%K oedipalizing
%K impossible writing
%U http://astonjournals.com/manuscripts/Vol2010/ASSJ-12_Vol2010.pdf