Migration, Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad

Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION / Tania Zulli & Kim Salmons -- Part One: Crossing Borders -- CONRAD'S RITES OF ENTRY AND RETURN / Robert Hampson -- BACK IN (THE) UKRAINE: RITES OF PASSAGE AND RITES OF ENTRY / William Atkinson -- FROM BERDYCZÓW TO BISHOPSBOURNE: CONRAD'S REAL AND IMAGINARY JOURNEYS / Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech -- 'THE VISION OF A COSMOPOLITAN': THE TRANSNATIONAL AESTHETIC OF A PERSONAL RECORD / Riccardo Capoferro -- Part Two: Empire, Movement and Migration -- 'NEW SHADES OF EXPRESSION:' DEATH AND EMPIRE IN CONRAD'S UNRESTFUL TALES. / Richard Niland -- 'QUEER FOREIGN FISH': FOOD AND MIGRATION IN ALMAYER'S FOLLY AND THE SECRET AGENT / Kim Salmons -- "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 -- A 'SETTLED RESIDENT': MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES IN CONRAD'S MALAY FICTION / Andrew Francis -- Part Three: Modernity and the Transnational -- ARAB AND MUSLIM TRANSNATIONALISM IN CONRAD'S MALAY FICTION / Katherine Baxter -- 'AMY FOSTER', AMERIKA AND AFTER BREAD: MODERNISM, TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMMIGRANT / Yael Levin -- FOUR EXILES IN THREE VOLUMES: W. G. SEBALD, EWA KURYLUK, JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ AND JOSEPH CONRAD / Laurence Davies -- AFTERWORD: HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER FOR CONRAD'S PERSONAL RECORD OF MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM / Christopher Gogwilt.