Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language.
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.
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This is a collection of 13 essays from the worlds leading scholars in the study of Joseph Conrad, considering the authors meditations on issues of migration and transnationalism within the context of modernity.
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| Introduction |
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Part One Crossing borders |
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1 Conrad's rites of entry and return |
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2 Back in (the) Ukraine: Rites of passage and rites of entry |
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3 From Berdyczow to Bishopsbourne: Conrad's real and imaginary journeys |
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Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech |
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4 "The vision of a cosmopolitan': The transnational aesthetic ofA Personal Record |
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Part Two Empire, movement and migration |
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5 `New shades of expression': Death and Empire in Conrad's un restful tales |
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6 `Queer foreign fish': Food and migration in Almayer's Folly and The Secret Agent |
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7 "The east spoke to me, but it was in a western voice': Perlocutionary acts and the language of migration in Conrad's fiction |
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8 A `settled resident': Movements of peoples and cultures in Conrad's Malay fiction |
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Part Three Modernity and the transnational |
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9 Arab and Muslim transnationalism in Conrad's Malay fiction |
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10 `Amy Foster', Amerika and After Bread: Modernism, technology and the immigrant |
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11 Four exiles in three volumes: W. G. Sebald, Ewa Kuryluk, Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Joseph Conrad |
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| Afterword: How Black lives matter for Conrad's personal record of migration and transnationalism |
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| Index of Names |
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Kim Salmons is an Associate Dean, Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at St Marys University, London.
Tania Zulli is Full Professor of English at the G. dAnnunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
