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Othering through Gendering Discourses and Patriarchal Hegemonies in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Abstract
Many postcolonial studies of the relationship between the 'empire' and the 'margin' have revealed that it is characterized by persistent dominance and exploitation. Scholars like Frantz Fanon have argued that colonial encounters between the West and Africa constitute a relationship of dominance and oppression in which the oppressed is maintained as an exploited Other to the dominant Self. While the power differential in this relationship is obsessively guarded through varying forms of othering, the dominant self subtly explores new ways of upholding the structures of supremacy over the Other. Gender is one such subtle means, in the sense that the colonial Other is often ingeniously conceived as the traditional female who is a subordinate (Other) to the male. This essay examines ways in which such othering through gendering is achieved in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
Keywords: Gender, Othering, Post-colonialism
