Machine generated contents note: Joseph Conrad's Eastern Geopolitics: Trade and Imperialism / Amar Acheraiou -- The Ends of Occidentalist Desire in Conrad's "Malay" Novels. "Every Name in History Is I" / Tamara Wagner -- Orienting Desire in Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands / Alexia Hannis -- "A Story of a Magnificent Savage": Interrogating Alterity in "Karain: A Memory" / Harry Sewlall -- The Continental Divide: Ethics and Alterity in Conrad's Lingard Trilogy / David Tenenbaum -- Crossing Cultural Lines in The Rescue / Yannick Le Boulicaut -- Almayer's Folly and Victory: Conrad's Affinity with Asian Religions / Ted Billy -- Migratory Rhetorics: Conrad and Salih and the Limits of Culture / Russell Ford -- Conrad's Chinese: Orientalism and Eurocentrism and Racism / Ira Raja -- The Speech and Silences of Orientals in Conrad's Malay Novels / Margaret J-M Sonmez -- Screening Decolonization: Richard Brooks's Lord Jim / Laetitia Cremona -- To the Converted / Lawrence Ware.
Summary
This is the first major study that deeply explores Conrad's perception and construction of the Orient in his Malay fiction. While it entertains a sustained dialogue with past and recent studies of Conrad's handling of colonial cross-cultural encounters, imperial ideology and race politics, this collection of original essays extends the debates on these key issues. The authors adopt a variety of critical and methodological perspectives - socio-political, anthropological, philosophical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, historical, and linguistic - in order to illuminate the richness, complexity and multi-dimensional character of Conrad's work.0Also part of: The Conrad Eastern and Western Perspectives Series; XXI.
