Outposts of progress
Subtitle: Joseph Conrad, modernism and post-colonialism
By: edited by Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe
Publisher: UCT Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Claremont, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781775820819; 9781775820895
Subjects: Colonies in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Imperialism in literature; African fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1: Language, culture and history. Humans and animals in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Kai Wiegandt; title: Bloody racists of 1899: some fictional contexts for Conrad's alleged racism in Heart of darkness / by Andrew Glazzard; title: Penetrating the impenetrable in Conrad's fiction / by Jeremy Hawthorn; title: Heart of darkness as chronotope: Conradian avatars in fiction, criticism, publishing and pedagogy / by Russell West-Pavlov; title: At the dying of two centuries: Heart of darkness and Disgrace / by David Medalie; title: Victory, music and the world of finance / by Konstantin Sofianos; title: The paradox of progress: far-reaching deliberations and 10 per cent loans / by Robert Hampson; title: Section 2: Writing and genre in Conrad's fiction. Heroes of the real: Conrad's epic without a cause / by Josiane Paccaud-Huguet; title: Being elsewhere: Conrad, Malinowski and the anxiety of storytelling / by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan; title: Going about: Conrad's progress in A personal record / by Douglas Kerr; title: 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; title: Irony and narrative distance: imperialist critique in Conrad's 'An outpost of progress' / by Jakob Lothe; title: 'Positioning' the reader in Conrad's Marlow narratives and in Ngũgĩ's wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat / by Gail Fincham.