{"product_id":"decolonising-the-conrad-canon-9781800856462","title":"Decolonising the Conrad Canon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, \u003ci\u003eDecolonising the Conrad Canon \u003c\/i\u003eshows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings. This book finds pockets of powerful anti-colonial resistance and queer dissonance in Joseph Conrad’s lesser-known works – breathing spaces from the colonial rhetoric that dominates his novels – and traces the female characters who voice them off the page and into their transmedia (digital\/illustrative\/cinematic) afterlives. From Immada and Edith’s queer gaze in \u003ci\u003eThe Rescue \u003c\/i\u003eand the periodical illustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to Aïssa’s sustained critique of imperialism in \u003ci\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands \u003c\/i\u003eand her portrayal on mass-market paperback book covers, to the structural female bonds of \u003ci\u003eAlmayer’s Folly\u003c\/i\u003e and Nina’s embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s adaptation \u003ci\u003eLa Folie Almayer\u003c\/i\u003e, this book centres Conrad’s female characters as viable, meaning-making citizens of the canon. Through this intervention, \u003ci\u003eDecolonising the Conrad Canon \u003c\/i\u003eproposes an innovative model for teaching, reading and studying not just Joseph Conrad’s work but the colonial literary canon more broadly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'New books on Conrad appear with such regularity that one wonders if there is anything new to say on the author, but in \u003ci\u003eDecolonising the Conrad Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice M. Kelly proves that original approaches are by no means exhausted. This volume offers refreshing and challenging new readings of Conrad’s Malay fiction within a stimulating and compelling re-evaluation of women and gender in these novels.'\u003cbr\u003e- Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Dead White Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: \u003ci\u003eThe Rescue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1. Female Homoeroticism and \u003ci\u003eThe Rescue\u003c\/i\u003e’s ‘Lesbian Context’2. The ‘Invisible Lesbian’ in the \u003ci\u003eLand and Water\u003c\/i\u003e Illustrations of \u003ci\u003eThe Rescue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePart 2: \u003ci\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e3. Aïssa: Agency, Race and the Articulation of Desire in \u003ci\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e4. Trash Conrad: Pulps, Paratexts and Protagonists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: \u003ci\u003eAlmayer’s Folly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e5. ... and Nina and Taminah and Mrs Almayer6. ‘Full-Bodied’: Embodiment in Chantal Akerman’s \u003ci\u003eLa Folie Almayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eConclusion: Breathing Spaces and Afterlives\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470071730519,"sku":"9781800856462","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800856462.jpg?v=1744897315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decolonising-the-conrad-canon-9781800856462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}