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Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad ii Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad Edited by Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2021 Copyright © Kim Salmons, Tania Zulli and contributors, 2021 Kim Salmons, Tania Zulli and contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xiii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design by Namkwan Cho Cover image © Alexandra Boardman All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-6892-3 ePDF: 978-1-3501-6893-0 eBook: 978-1-3501-6894-7 Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. To our Conradian colleagues – past, present and yet to come. vi Contents List of figures ix Notes on contributors x Acknowledgements xiii List of abbreviations xiv Introduction Kim Salmons and Tania Zulli 1 Part One Crossing borders 1 Conrad’s rites of entry and return Robert Hampson 17 2 Back in (the) Ukraine: Rites of passage and rites of entry William Atkinson 35 3 From Berdyczów to Bishopsbourne: Conrad’s real and imaginary journeys Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech 51 4 ‘The vision of a cosmopolitan’: The transnational aesthetic of A Personal Record Riccardo Capoferro 73 Part Two Empire, movement and migration 5 ‘New shades of expression’: Death and Empire in Conrad’s unrestful tales Richard Niland 93 6 ‘Queer foreign fish’: Food and migration in Almayer’s Folly and The Secret Agent Kim Salmons 109 7 ‘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 127 8 A ‘settled resident’: Movements of peoples and cultures in Conrad’s Malay fiction Andrew Francis 143 viii Contents Part Three Modernity and the transnational 9 Arab and Muslim transnationalism in Conrad’s Malay fiction Katherine Isobel Baxter 163 10 ‘Amy Foster’, Amerika and After Bread: Modernism, technology and the immigrant Yael Levin 179 11 Four exiles in three volumes: W. G. Sebald, Ewa Kuryluk, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Joseph Conrad Laurence Davies 197 Afterword: How Black lives matter for Conrad’s personal record of migration and transnationalism Chris GoGwilt 215 Index of Names 230 Index of Subjects 237 Figures Chapter 3 1 Illustration on the Wędrowiec cover page to the excerpt from the account of Dr Livingstone’s travels in Africa entitled ‘Brzegi Zambezy’ [The banks of the Zambezi River]. The caption: ‘Ma-Robert steamship on the Zambezi’ 59 2 Illustration on the Wędrowiec cover page to the excerpt from the account of McClintock’s voyage entitled ‘McClintock’s voyage to the North Pole’. Caption: ‘The Fox ship ice-bound’ 61 Chapter 8 1 Kawasan Perkuburan Kristian (The Christian Cemetery, Penang) (Andrew Francis, 19 August 2010) 153 2 Kubur Belanda (The Dutch Graveyard), Melaka (Malacca) (Andrew Francis, 13 February 2014) 153 3 St Paul’s Church, Melaka (Malacca) (Andrew Francis, 13 February 2014) 154 4 Tombstone of ‘Elizabeth’ Mrs Gray. Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore. Died 12 November 1861 (Andrew Francis, 11 February 2014) 154
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