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Outposts of progress : Joseph Conrad, modernism and post-colonialism / edited by Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe.
- Title
- Outposts of progress : Joseph Conrad, modernism and post-colonialism / edited by Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe.
- Publication
- Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, 2015
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- Description
- xxxviii, 226 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- :Taking Joseph Conrad's short story 'An Outpost of Progress' as its catalyst, this volume of essays brings to light some new and contradictory readings of Conrad's approach to Africa that will be of interest to Conrad specialists and students alike. Key scholars in the field of Conrad studies have contributed to this book. They consider the relationship between Conrad's works and Disgrace, by South Africa's leading novelist, J.M. Coetzee; compare the role of the reader in Conrad's narratives and the writing of Chinua Achebe; and consider postcolonial texts from Africa in their intertextuality with Conrad's fiction: works by Nuruddin Farah, Veronique Tadjo, Dambudzo Marechera, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zakes Mda and Zoë Wicomb, among others. The book is organised largely into three themes: language, culture and history; writing and genre in Conrad's fiction; and how Conrad positions his readers, living at different times and in different parts of the world. The contributors also focus on the word 'progress' - as used by Conrad in 1897, by his contemporaries, and as it might be used today. This volume present readers with a range of issues that demonstrate the significance and relevance of Conrad's work in the twenty-first century and underscore his seminal contribution to modernism and his inalienable position within postcolonial literature." --Cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Section 1: Language, culture and history. Humans and animals in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Kai Wiegandt -- Bloody racists of 1899: some fictional contexts for Conrad's alleged racism in Heart of darkness / by Andrew Glazzard -- Penetrating the impenetrable in Conrad's fiction / by Jeremy Hawthorn -- Heart of darkness as chronotope: Conradian avatars in fiction, criticism, publishing and pedagogy / by Russell West-Pavlov -- At the dying of two centuries: Heart of darkness and Disgrace / by David Medalie -- Victory, music and the world of finance / by Konstantin Sofianos -- The paradox of progress: far-reaching deliberations and 10 per cent loans / by Robert Hampson -- Section 2: Writing and genre in Conrad's fiction. Heroes of the real: Conrad's epic without a cause / by Josiane Paccaud-Huguet -- Being elsewhere: Conrad, Malinowski and the anxiety of storytelling / by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Going about: Conrad's progress in A personal record / by Douglas Kerr -- Duo, trio and quartette: a comparative reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's and Lloyd Osbourne's The ebb-tide and Joseph Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Jürgen Kramer -- Irony and narrative distance: imperialist critique in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Jakob Lothe -- 'Positioning' the reader in Conrad's Marlow narratives and in Ngũgĩ's wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat / by Gail Fincham.
- ISBN
- 9781775820819
- 1775820815
- 9781775820895 (pdf)
- 1775820890 (pdf)
- LCCN
- ^^2015453394
- OCLC
- 900936305
- SCSB-12056364
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library