RT Book,_Section
T1 B. Traven and Joseph Conrad: Ideological Contrasts
A1 Sacido Romero, Jorge
K1 B. Traven
K1 Joseph Conrad
K1 The Death Ship
K1 The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
K1 Fukuyama
AB In Traven’s view, Joseph Conrad stands out among the popular writers that had contributed the most to promote this negative picture of the crew.  Conrad, who had died the previous year, was not only a great literary artist, he was also one of the most popular writers of sea fiction, particularly in the United States of America. Whether in retrospect or not, Conrad became Traven’s main target: that is, the author whose presentation of the ship as social organisation had to be deconstructed, to be “outdone,” as he assertively proclaims. But, the fact is that The Nigger of the “Narcissus: A Tale of the Sea” (orig. pub. 1897) –the one novel by Conrad in which the crew is given greater prominence than in any other work of the Polish-born author– stages a process of political conflict between masters (captain and officers) and slaves (the deck-hands) that is only precariously solved at the end through some degree of ideological closure.
PB Königshausen & Neumann
SN 9783826030802
YR 2005
FD 2005
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34520
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34520
LA eng
NO Sacido Romero, Jorge. "B. Traven and Joseph Conrad: Ideological Contrasts". In 'B. Travens Erzählwerk in der Konstellation von Sprachen und Kulturen', ed. Günter Dammann, Würzburg(Alemania): Königshausen & Neumann, 2005
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026