Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction: Writing Malaysia

ISBN-13: 9780333714058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 248 str.

R. G. Hampson; Robert Hampson

Opis

This study examines all of Conrad's Malay fiction. It focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. The author also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Recenzje

'Hampson's analysis of Conrad's five novels and two short stories set in the nineteenth-century Malay world is of an intimidatingly wide scope and impressive depth...[A] highly erudite and original literary critique for advanced students of Conrad's oeuvre, cultural studies, and English Literature.' - Carool Kersten

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction Problems of Historiography The Advancement of Learning The Inward Turn: Wallace and Clifford Cultural Diversity and Originary Identity: Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands Encountering the Other: Race and Gender in 'The Lagoon' and 'Karain' Speech and Writing in Lord Jim Absence and Presence in Victory Dialogue and Cross-dressing in The Rescue Homecoming Notes Index

O autorze

Robert Hampson is Reader of English Literature at Royal Halloway, University of London.