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Joseph Conrad and the adventure tradition : constructing and deconstructing the imperial subject by White, Andrea, 1942- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire served to promote, celebrate, and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between "us" and "them," colonizer and colonized. Andrea White's study examines popular travel literature in relation to later adventure stories, and sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad demythologized the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, more critical means of evaluating the experience of empire.

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Author

White, Andrea, 1942-

Publisher

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511519277

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Adventure, Fiction