Our Conrad ─ Constituting American Modernity
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ISBN13:9780804757911
出版社:Stanford Univ Pr
作者:Peter Lancelot Mallios
出版日:2010/09/21
裝訂/頁數:平裝/468頁
規格:23.5cm*15.9cm*3.2cm (高/寬/厚)
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Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and how this reception was crucial to the formation of modernism and American culture more generally. Born in Poland and early displaced throughout Russia and the European continent, this sailor, world traveler, and ultimately British citizen was first invented as a master literary figure in the United States. Although he never visited the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. Mallios rewrites modern American literary and cultural history through Conrad's estranging prism. In so doing, he avails himself of a wide range of sources that reveal the historical and poltical factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent cultural and political figures---including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt.
The book's chronological narrative is complemented by shifts in regional emphasis. Conrad emerged on a national level in the Northeast around the Great War when anxieties about democracy, foreign relations, and immigration ran high. After the war, the expatriate "Lost Generation" reread and rewrote Conradian aesthetics with a view to their political stakes. In the 1920s, Conrad fever swept the American South, where his work spoke to race relations and other regional conflicts. Mallios proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which (s)he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial. If, in political and cultural wars, foreigners may be on an equal footing with Americans on their own soil, traditional literary history has ignored them at its peril.
The book's chronological narrative is complemented by shifts in regional emphasis. Conrad emerged on a national level in the Northeast around the Great War when anxieties about democracy, foreign relations, and immigration ran high. After the war, the expatriate "Lost Generation" reread and rewrote Conradian aesthetics with a view to their political stakes. In the 1920s, Conrad fever swept the American South, where his work spoke to race relations and other regional conflicts. Mallios proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which (s)he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial. If, in political and cultural wars, foreigners may be on an equal footing with Americans on their own soil, traditional literary history has ignored them at its peril.
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Peter Lancelot Mallios is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland. He is co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, of Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives (2005).
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