Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad

257 Pages·2021·13.696 MB·English

by  Kim Salmons, Tania Zulli

Migration, Modernity and
Transnationalism in the Work of
Joseph Conrad
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Migration, Modernity and
Transnationalism in the Work of
Joseph Conrad
Edited by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli
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To our Conradian colleagues – past, present and yet to come.
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Contents
List of figures ix
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
List of abbreviations xiv
Introduction Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli 1
Part One Crossing borders
1 Conrad’s rites of entry and return
Robert Hampson 17
2 Back in (the) Ukraine: Rites of passage and rites of entry
William Atkinson 35
3 From Berdyczów to Bishopsbourne: Conrad’s real and imaginary
journeys
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech 51
4 ‘The vision of a cosmopolitan’: The transnational aesthetic of
A Personal Record
Riccardo Capoferro 73
Part Two Empire, movement and migration
5 ‘New shades of expression’: Death and Empire in Conrad’s
unrestful tales
Richard Niland 93
6 ‘Queer foreign fish’: Food and migration in Almayer’s Folly and
The Secret Agent
Kim Salmons 109
7 ‘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 127
8 A ‘settled resident’: Movements of peoples and cultures in
Conrad’s Malay fiction
Andrew Francis 143
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Part Three Modernity and the transnational
9 Arab and Muslim transnationalism in Conrad’s Malay fiction
Katherine Isobel Baxter 163
10 ‘Amy Foster’, Amerika and After Bread: Modernism, technology and
the immigrant
Yael Levin 179
11 Four exiles in three volumes: W. G. Sebald, Ewa Kuryluk,
Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Joseph Conrad
Laurence Davies 197
Afterword: How Black lives matter for Conrad’s personal record
of migration and transnationalism
Chris GoGwilt 215
Index of Names 230
Index of Subjects 237
Figures
Chapter 3
1 Illustration on the Wędrowiec cover page to the excerpt from
the account of Dr Livingstone’s travels in Africa entitled ‘Brzegi
Zambezy’ [The banks of the Zambezi River]. The caption:
‘Ma-Robert steamship on the Zambezi’ 59
2 Illustration on the Wędrowiec cover page to the excerpt from the
account of McClintock’s voyage entitled ‘McClintock’s voyage
to the North Pole’. Caption: ‘The Fox ship ice-bound’ 61
Chapter 8
1 Kawasan Perkuburan Kristian (The Christian Cemetery,
Penang) (Andrew Francis, 19 August 2010) 153
2 Kubur Belanda (The Dutch Graveyard), Melaka (Malacca)
(Andrew Francis, 13 February 2014) 153
3 St Paul’s Church, Melaka (Malacca) (Andrew Francis,
13 February 2014) 154
4 Tombstone of ‘Elizabeth’ Mrs Gray. Fort Canning Cemetery,
Singapore. Died 12 November 1861 (Andrew Francis,
11 February 2014) 154