Racial Discrimination and the Decline of Cultural Identity. In Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus

      Аннотация: The present book focuses on the study of Conrad’s "Nigger of the Narcissus" that is replete with the oriental, cultural, and racial contents, themes, and elements. The critical issues of O, race and identity are Edward Said’s, Frantz Fanon's, and Homi Bhabha's justifications which were manifested as Oriental discourse and the concept of the O, racism, and decline of identity. In fact, their ideas opened new chapters in the Western cultural and literary studies.The book also revolves around an investigation of Joseph Conrad’s "Nigger of the Narcissus", and his orientalism, racism, and identity problem. O is another idea in the research which is associated with the wholeness of the colonial tradition on the one hand, and with Conrad’s orientalism on the other. The research explains some other relevant subjects like colonialism, postcolonial theories, racial discrimination and decline of cultural identity, too.

Ключевые слова: race, identity, Joseph Conrad, Edward W. Said, Theories of Colonialism, Homi K. Bhabha, Theories of Identity, Frantz Fanon, Theories of Race, Decline of Cultural Identity