Joseph Conrad's "The Planter of Malata": timing, and the forgotten adventures of the silk plant "Arghan".(Critical essay)

Textile | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Abstract

Joseph Conrad's 1914 short story "The Planter of Malata," set partly in Sydney and partly on the fictional island of "Malata," is a tale of unrequited passion ending with suicide. The planter, Geoffrey Renouard, is at a crucial juncture in his enterprise on the Malata concession with something called silk plants. What are these plants that they should be the subject of scientific, mercantile, financial, and political interest? What is Renouard's fiber? Attention to the details of this fiction reveals that mulberry trees are not at all the most likely silk ...

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