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Journal Article
Brothers' Keepers: Men's Caregiving and Violence in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
2025
Overview
While Heart of Darkness (1899) is a touchstone for imperial violence, it is also a text full of men's caregiving. This paper investigates the tenderness of the novella's malemale caregiving relationships--not as an antithesis to violence but as an integral component of imperialist agendas. Across global newspapers and journals, nineteenth- century thinkers debated how to monitor white men's unauthorized aggression. These texts often landed on a paradoxical solution of mutual surveillance, or what I call \"brother's keeper\" logic, to supplement the limitations of administrative control. Joseph Conrad's novella explores the twisted emotional bonds--and the bodily risks--of such ideas. In this text, the imperial brother's keeper rhetoric succumbs to an unavoidable master/ servant dynamic, showing that imperialism's ideology cannot support notions of equality even among white agents of empire.
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Indiana University Press
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