Post-colonial theory suggests that Trump’s invasion of Iran–the Persian Orient–may be psychosexual.
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Tag Archives: Joseph Conrad
Sexual Dominance and the Iran Invasion
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "To His Mistress Going to Bed", Carl Jung, Donald Trump, Edward Said, H. Rider Haggard, Iran invasion, John Donne, Orientalism, She Leave a comment
Iran: Heart of Darkness Redux?
We may be living a Heart of Darkness but Trump is no Kurtz.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "White Man's Burden", Colonialism, DJT, Edward Said, Heart of Darkness, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, She Leave a comment
The Lost Honor of Lindsey Graham
Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly yesterday. I turn to Beckett, Orwell, Conrad and Eliot to sum up the man.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hollow Men", 1984, Anne Appelbaum, Captive Mind, collaborators, Czeslaw Milosz, DJT, George Orwell, Heart of Darkness, Lindsey Graham, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Waiting for Godot Comments closed
Illness Can Feel Like a Heart of Darkness
My recent bout with the flu has me revisiting Heart of Darkness. It may not be malaria but it’s plenty unpleasant.
How Sociopaths Like DJT Escape Justice
Brundage’s magnificent crime novel “All Things Cease to Appear” frustrates our longing for accountability—as does DJT.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged accountability, All Things Cease to Appear, crime novel, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Bundage, Heart of Darkness, Importance of Being Earnest, King Lear, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare Comments closed
The Darkness at the Heart of Whiteness
Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is all too applicable to the Musk administration’s attempts to destroy America.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Elon Musk, Greg Olear, Heart of Darkness, Prevail, white supremacy Comments closed
Going Gently into That Good Night–Or Not
In which I pull on Kenyon, Dylan Thomas, Conrad, Chandler, Lawrence and others in an attempt to penetrate the mysteries of dying.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Do Not Go Gentle", "Fern Hill", "In Blackwater Woods", "Let Evening Come", Big Sleep, D. H. Lawrence, death and dyiing, Dylan Thomas, Heart of Darkness, Jane Kenyon, Mary Oliver, Raymond Chandler, Sons and Lovers Comments closed
Orientalizing the Other
In my postcolonial lit course, I applied Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism to Haggard’s “She” and Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It’s not pretty.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Snake Charmer", "To His Mistress Going to Bed", Andrew Marvell, Colonialism, Edward Said, empire building, H. Rider Haggard, Heart of Darkness, John Donne, Orientalism, She, To His Coy Mistress Comments closed
Celebrate Work? or Complain about It?
For Labor Day, two poems (Brecht, Piercy) about jobs that degrade. But the poems themselves offer solace.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Pirate Jenny's Song", "Secretary Chant", Bertolt Brecht, Heart of Darkness, Kurt Weil, Labor Day, Marge Piercy, Threepenny Opera, Work Comments closed