REAL AND HETEROTOPIC SPACE WITH JOSEPH CONRAD
REAL AND HETEROTOPIC SPACE WITH JOSEPH CONRAD

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses navigation and the sailing ship both as real and heterotopic space in Joseph Conrad’s fiction, thus combining Michel Foucault’s theory on space with ecocritical and ecological views which look at nature (the sea) and the ship (material and human) as special interconnected spaces. According to these views, the shore, the strip of coast between land and sea is looked at as a liminal space that connects the atmospheric wilderness of the sea with the material land. What is the distinction between real, fictional and heterotopic spaces? What is their relation to liminality, hyperobjects and wilderness? How does ecocriticism apply these concepts to Conrad’s work?

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