The Indian Ocean Trade and East-West Cultural Conflicts in Joseph Conrad's Early Fiction
Set in the 19th century Indian Ocean,Joseph Conrad's early novels present both a map of various trade competitions in the east Indian Ocean,specifically in the Malay Archipelago,and a picture of the East-West cultural conflicts thereof,opening up a new world for his contemporary literary imagination.In his early novels,Conrad exposes the trade monopoly and hegemony behind the so-called"freedom of the seas"promoted by the European maritime empires,while deeply exploring the profit-seeking nature of the cultural conflicts between Christianity and Islamism.Conrad's early writings of the Indian Ocean trade exhibit his superior cross-cultural critical consciousness and his moral conscience as a sea writer.
Joseph ConradIndian Oceantrade writingsEast-West cultural conflicts
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