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Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrads fear of personal disintegration in hisconstant renarration of the past. Using the authors personal letters as aguide to understanding his fiction Said draws an important parallel betweenConrads view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. Thecritic also argues that the author who set his fiction in exotic locationslike East Asia and Africa projects political dimensions in his work thatmirror a colonialist preoccupation with civilizing native peoples. Said thensuggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Westernliterature. First published in 1966 Saids critique of the Western selfsstruggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking workOrientalism and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today. «
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