IDENTITY AND IMPERIALISM IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S FICTION
IDENTITY AND IMPERIALISM IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S FICTION

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on Joseph Conrad’s proleptic gift to infer in each stage of appropriating foreign territories the specific psychology of the imperialistic identity and its continuous march from seemingly well-meaning colonization towards Empire, as the expression of globalization. Conrad’s position is anti-globalist. Moreover, he warns about the advent of the Counter-Empire, either as anarchism or as communism, both forms of evil brought about by Empire, counteracting it while sharing with it certain globalist identity features.

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