Abstract
This article targets to converge in analyzing the novel Lord Jim and Said’s Culture and Imperialism to illustrate the critical development of the term ‘contrapuntal reading’ that demonstrates spatial rather than temporal relationship between them. This study deeply endeavors to present the relation between the colonized and colonizer as it is marked in Said’s Culture and Imperialism that demonstrates Conrad’s Lord Jim while it exposes the relationship of Jim and all other characters and the experiences of Jim that he gathers in his journey in the novel. In addition, this study scrutinizes the different aspects related with the term ‘contrapuntal reading’-colonialism, modernism and imperialism. However, qualitative approach has been applied to analyze the novel Lord Jim. As a consequence, this effort will pave the way to interpret the novel Lord Jim with an in-depth analysis that will lead the researchers to investigate other texts under the light of the term ‘contrapuntal reading’. More specifically this research paper investigates the inner incidents that took place in the novel Lord Jim in the light of Said’s Culture and Imperialism to establish various relationships as a contrapuntal reading study.
Highlights
According to Said, „Contrapuntal reading‟ is reading a text with an understanding of what is involved when an author shows (78)
In Culture and Imperialism, we see that it is the relation between the colonized and the colonizer and the relationship between the master and slave in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia like the western post-colonial territories in the imperialist society, France‟s colonialism in Algeria is for example
Most of the researcher‟s emphases on contrapuntal reading in dissimilar aspects to ascertain their objectives but in this research article we have strived to assess a novel in the light of Edward Said‟s own creation Culture and Imperialism to investigate the novel Lord Jim as a contrapuntal study
Summary
According to Said, „Contrapuntal reading‟ is reading a text with an understanding of what is involved when an author shows (78). Like all literary texts, Culture and Imperialism and Lord Jim are not restricted by their formal historic beginnings and endings It is bounded by the concept of modernity of the western civilization. In Culture and Imperialism Edward Said analyses a plethora of literary works, the ones written by colonial authors who used the colonised countries as settings for their plots (Ouahida, Mrs Aissaoui, 2018). In another perspective, the contradictions defining Said‟s personal history suggest a more complicated and compelling model of the politics and epistemology of cultural difference (Armstrong, Paul, 2018). Most of the researcher‟s emphases on contrapuntal reading in dissimilar aspects to ascertain their objectives but in this research article we have strived to assess a novel in the light of Edward Said‟s own creation Culture and Imperialism to investigate the novel Lord Jim as a contrapuntal study
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