Andrew Francis

Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Francis' Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length critical study of commerce in Conrad's work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad's Asian fiction, but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism. Conrad's treatment of commerce - Arab, Chinese and Malay, as well as European - is explored within a historically specific context as intricate and resistant to traditional readings of commerce as simple and homogeneous. Through the analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, this book examines capitalism, colonialism and globalization within the commercial, political and social contexts of colonial Southeast Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316289785
• Artikelnr.: 52967533

Autorenporträt

Andrew Francis is a writer, community theologian, and former executive vice-chair of the UK Mennonite Trust. His doctorate (Princeton Theological Seminary) examined how religious communities use food and eat together. He is a published poet, and author of Hospitality and Community After Christendom (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Commerce and the edge of colonialism: Almayer's Folly; 2. Competing for
the prizes of commerce and overlordship: An Outcast of the Islands; 3.
Standing out against the irresistibility of progress: The Rescue; 4.
Negotiating the nets of commerce and duty: Lord Jim; 5. Imperialism,
commerce, and the individual: appetites and responsibilities in 'Falk'; 6.
Testing the West, testing the individual: The Shadow-Line; 7. The
'irreducible minimum': the plantation and comprehensive commercialization
in 'The End of the Tether'; 8. The rise of the commodity: mining,
pan-European financing, and commercial imagination in Victory.