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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Tania Zulli & Kim Salmons
Part One: Crossing Borders
CONRADS RITES OF ENTRY AND RETURN
Robert Hampson
BACK IN (THE) UKRAINE: RITES OF PASSAGE AND RITES OF ENTRY
William Atkinson
FROM BERDYCZÓW TO BISHOPSBOURNE: CONRADS 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 CONRADS UNRESTFUL TALES.
Richard Niland
QUEER FOREIGN FISH: FOOD AND MIGRATION IN ALMAYERS 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 CONRADS FICTION
Tania Zulli
A SETTLED RESIDENT: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN CONRADS MALAY
FICTION
Andrew Francis
Part Three: Modernity and the Transnational
ARAB AND MUSLIM TRANSNATIONALISM IN CONRADS 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 CONRADS PERSONAL RECORD OF MIGRATION
AND TRANSNATIONALISM
Christopher Gogwilt
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.
