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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction

Writing Malaysia

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Robert Hampson

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 1-30

  3. Problems of Historiography

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 31-43

  4. The Advancement of Learning: Marsden, Raffles, Brooke

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 44-71

  5. The Inward Turn: Wallace and Clifford

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 72-98

  6. Cultural Diversity and Originary Identity: Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 99-115

  7. Encountering the Other: ‘Race’ and Gender in ‘The Lagoon’ and ‘Karain’

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 116-128

  8. Speech and Writing in Lord Jim

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 129-145

  9. Absence and Presence in Victory

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 146-160

  10. Dialogue and Cross-Dressing in The Rescue

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 161-181

  11. Homecoming

    • Robert Hampson
    Pages 182-189

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 190-248
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About this book

This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

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'Hampson's analysis of Conrad's five novels and two short stories set in the nineteenth-century Malay world is of an intimidatingly wide scope and impressive depth...[A] highly erudite and original literary critique for advanced students of Conrad's oeuvre, cultural studies, and English Literature.' - Carool Kersten

Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Robert Hampson

About the author

Robert Hampson is Reader of English Literature at Royal Halloway, University of London.

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