Outposts of progress - Joseph Conrad, modernism and post-colonialism (Paperback)

The first international conference ever held in Africa on the works of author Joseph Conrad took place in 1998, to mark the centenary of the publication of heart of darkness. This book draws its title from Conrad's short story, `An Outpost of Progress' which represented the responses of a European to colonial settler assumptions about progress and backwardness, in the light of his first-hand experience of Europeans in Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. The 13 essays in this collection engage directly with the ways in which Conrad's fiction explores and problematises the notion of `progress', not only at the time when he was writing but now, more than a century later. Although the relationship between modernist and postcolonial literature has been theorised by critics in Britain, Europe and America since the late 1980s, for the first time, this book brings these debates to Africa.

General

Imprint:	University of Cape Town Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	2015
Editors:	Gail Fincham • Jeremy Hawthorn • Jakob Lothe
Dimensions:	225 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-1-77582-081-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-77582-081-5
Barcode:	9781775820819

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