{"product_id":"9781800856462-decolonising-the-conrad-canon","title":"Decolonising the Conrad Canon","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\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 periodicalillustrations 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56403892535670,"sku":"9781800856462","price":154.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36639733.jpg?v=1760652124","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800856462-decolonising-the-conrad-canon","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}