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Arthur’s discovery that he is genetically linked to the “aberrant” Ongas and his subsequent descent into madness represent a failure to establish himself as a separate subject, which leads to a situation in which, the individual is, as Kristeva suggests “swamped by the dual relationship, thereby risking the loss not of a part (castration) but of the totality of his living being” (64). In “Jermyn” Lovecraft initially depicts England and the Congo in an oppositional relationship. England and the Jermyns are defined against the Congo and the Ongas.
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To this end I will examine Lovecraft’s fiction in order to (re)position him as an important, if not hugely inf luential, proponent in the development of abjection as a force within the Gothic genre during the early twentieth century, placing his fiction alongside such writers as Bram Stoker and Joseph Conrad who use the non-Western as a signifier of horror. As part of this analysis, it must be noted that while my subsuming of Lovecraft’s writing under the loose category of the Gothic may seem a critical fallacy given the wide variety of genres that the author can be said to have worked in, such a decision seems increasingly cogent given Abject Hybridity 15 the wide selection of material concerning the Gothic’s relationship to the abject.
