Jim’s encounter with the Patna pilgrims introduces an unprecedented human category for him

Evidence

But in half a paragraph, Jim has a new berth (chief mate on the Patna) and in another half a page, ill its passengers-to-be, confronts a new type of human being and a new category ofh_uman existence: 234 PO L I T I CA L U N C O N S C I O U S They streamed abo. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6088