{"product_id":"migration-modernity-and-transnationalism-in-the-work-of-joseph-conrad-9781350255524","title":"Migration Modernity and Transnationalism in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings  changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity  which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language.   Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a trans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLIST OF FIGURES\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eACKOWLEDGEMENTS\u003c\/i\u003e   INTRODUCTION  Tania Zulli \u0026amp; Kim Salmons   \u003cb\u003ePart One: Crossing Borders\u003c\/b\u003e   CONRAD’S RITES OF ENTRY AND RETURN             Robert Hampson   BACK IN (THE) UKRAINE: RITES OF PASSAGE AND RITES OF ENTRY William Atkinson   FROM BERDYCZÓW TO BISHOPSBOURNE: CONRAD’S REAL AND IMAGINARY JOURNEYS Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech   ‘THE VISION OF A COSMOPOLITAN’: THE TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETIC OF \u003ci\u003eA PERSONAL RECORD\u003c\/i\u003e Riccardo Capoferro   \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Empire, Movement and Migration\u003c\/b\u003e   ‘NEW SHADES OF EXPRESSION:’ DEATH AND EMPIRE IN CONRAD’S UNRESTFUL TALES. Richard Niland   \u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eQ\u003ci\u003eUEER FOREIGN FISH’: FOOD AND MIGRATION IN ALMAYER’S FOLLY AND THE SECRET AGENT\u003c\/i\u003e Kim Salmons   “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   A ‘SETTLED RESIDENT’: MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION Andrew Francis   \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Modernity and the Transnational\u003c\/b\u003e ARAB AND MUSLIM TRANSNATIONALISM IN CONRAD’S MALAY FICTION Katherine Baxter   ‘AMY FOSTER’, \u003ci\u003eAMERIKA \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eAFTER BREAD: \u003c\/i\u003eMODERNISM, TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMMIGRANT Yael Levin   FOUR EXILES IN THREE VOLUMES:  W. G. SEBALD, EWA KURYLUK, JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ AND JOSEPH CONRAD Laurence Davies   AFTERWORD: HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER FOR CONRAD’S PERSONAL RECORD OF MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM             Christopher Gogwilt","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019645550935,"sku":"9781350255524","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350255524.jpg?v=1750780893","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migration-modernity-and-transnationalism-in-the-work-of-joseph-conrad-9781350255524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}