Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25552-4 (ISBN)
Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad’s own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad’s work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.
Kim Salmons is an Associate Dean, Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at St Mary’s University, London. Tania Zulli is Full Professor of English at the “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Tania Zulli & Kim Salmons
Part One: Crossing Borders
CONRAD’S RITES OF ENTRY AND RETURN
Robert Hampson
BACK IN (THE) UKRAINE: RITES OF PASSAGE AND RITES OF ENTRY
William Atkinson
FROM BERDYCZÓW TO BISHOPSBOURNE: CONRAD’S REAL AND IMAGINARY JOURNEYS
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech
‘THE VISION OF A COSMOPOLITAN’: THE TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETIC OF A PERSONAL RECORD
Riccardo Capoferro
Part Two: Empire, Movement and Migration
‘NEW SHADES OF EXPRESSION:’ DEATH AND EMPIRE IN CONRAD’S UNRESTFUL TALES.
Richard Niland
‘QUEER FOREIGN FISH’: FOOD AND MIGRATION IN ALMAYER’S FOLLY AND THE SECRET AGENT
Kim Salmons
“THE EAST SPOKE TO ME, BUT IT WAS IN A WESTERN VOICE”:
PERLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND THE LANGUAGE OF MIGRATION IN CONRAD’S FICTION
Tania Zulli
A ‘SETTLED RESIDENT’: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION
Andrew Francis
Part Three: Modernity and the Transnational
ARAB AND MUSLIM TRANSNATIONALISM IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION
Katherine Baxter
‘AMY FOSTER’, AMERIKA AND AFTER BREAD: MODERNISM, TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMMIGRANT
Yael Levin
FOUR EXILES IN THREE VOLUMES:
W. G. SEBALD, EWA KURYLUK, JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ AND JOSEPH CONRAD
Laurence Davies
AFTERWORD: HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER FOR CONRAD’S PERSONAL RECORD OF MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM
Christopher Gogwilt
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-25552-1 / 1350255521 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-25552-4 / 9781350255524 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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