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OverviewExamining 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kim Salmons (St Mary’s University, London, UK) , Tania Zulli (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350255524ISBN 10: 1350255521 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 23 February 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTABLE 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 GogwiltReviewsAuthor InformationKim 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |