{"product_id":"decolonising-the-conrad-canon-alice-m-kelly-9781836243939","title":"Decolonising the Conrad Canon","description":"\u003cp\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 periodical \u003cbr\u003eillustrations that accompanied its initial serialization, to A?ssa'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice M. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836243936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836243939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Alice M. Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46825907093759,"sku":"9781836243939","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_573e8976-82b1-40b9-a421-0e4dbb9b6001.jpg?v=1746073989","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/decolonising-the-conrad-canon-alice-m-kelly-9781836243939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}