Stereotyped Oriental Women in Conrad’s Early Malay Novels
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1207.17Keywords:
early Malay novels, stereotypes, misrepresentations, contrapuntal readingAbstract
With help of Edward Said’s theory of cultural representation of Orientalism and the method of contrapuntal reading, the paper aims to provide a study of the misrepresentation of the Oriental women by stereotypes in Joseph Conrad’s two early Malay novels and expose the power relations of the West’s domination and subjugation of the Orient and the Oriental women behind the stereotyping process.
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