The Joseph Conrad Centennial Book Project is a comprehensive study of Joseph Conrad’s works, focusing on contemporary issues and changing perceptions. The hundredth death anniversary of Joseph Conrad is an obvious occasion for a critical revaluation of his literary works. Professor Jeremy Hawthorn and Professor Robert Hampson, both esteemed critics and scholars, provide an insightful and critical introduction and foreword to the book, which serves as a collection of Conradian scholarship and legacy. This collection of essays explores various themes and perspectives from distinguished scholars and experts in Conrad studies. The project aims to provide readers with an incredible reach and breadth of Conrad’s work. The purpose of this centennial project is to revisit the extraordinarily complex and diverse works of Joseph Conrad for global readers.

The book serves as a valuable resource through the complex labyrinth of Conrad’s works. It offers new and fresh critical and theoretical perspectives. Conrad’s works remain relevant because the world he explored reverberates continually, offering a new way of understanding as it revisits contemporary issues and discourses. The book is an extended account of recent developments in Conradian studies and a seminal collection of articles on Conrad, while modestly retaining the seriousness of Conrad’s work. The book provides a different and more complex sense of Conrad’s place in literary history. It will be of significant interest to scholars and students seeking an updated view of contemporary Conradian studies.

Foreword

Robert Hampson

Editorial

John G. Peters and Chandrakant Langare

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Still Going Strong: Conrad’s Fiction a Hundred Years On

Jeremy Hawthorn

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Conrad and Africa

Robert Hampson

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The Methodology of Studying Joseph Conrad Globally in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the Publishing Strategy of the Series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

Wieslaw Krajka

3

Tragic Adventures in the Age of Empire: New and Old Laws in Lord Jim

Richard Ambrosini

4

Revolution and Return in Joseph Conrad’s The Rover

Ellen Burton Harrington

5

Conrad’s Lord Jim, Self-Understanding, and the Provocations of Reality

Amechi N. Akwanya and Mary J.N. Okolie

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The Planet, the Crew, and the War: The Representation of the Ship and the Malady and the Echo of the Pandemic in The Shadow-Line

Tanaka Kazuya

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Conrad, James, Crane, and the Mimetic Desire for Authorship

Bouteldja Riche and Sabrina Zerar

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War and Peace in The Rover

Christie Gramm

9

Sea as Topos under the Good Ship Burble

James Mellor

10

“We Did Not Hear You”: The Conflict of Narratives in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly

Yu Ando

11

Romancing Desertion: Impossible Allegiances in “Gaspar Ruiz”

Claude Maisonnat

12

Reaching out to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Writing Silence and Isolation

Baisali Hui

13

Culturally-Mediated Perceptions: Remapping Conrad’s Narrative of Colonial Violence

Xiaoling Yao

14

The Sea, Sky and Everything Buoyant: An Ideological Study of the Heart of Darkness

M. Shanthi and Deepa Prajith

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The Epic Vision in Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo

Basavaraj Naikar

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A Wide Field of Vision for a Deep Resolution: The West, the East, and the Self in Joseph Conrad’s “Youth”

Venkatesh Puttaiah

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Achebe’s Criticism of Conrad: A Belated Response

R. Ramachandra

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Joseph Conrad’s Aesthetic Imperative in the Light of Jacques Rancière’s New Regime of Art

Silvana N. Fernández

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“Waiting” for the Barbarians?: A Comparative Study of the Central Characters in Waiting for Barbarians, Lawrence of Arabia, and Heart of Darkness

Appu Jacob John

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A Womanist Critique of White Supremacy in U-Wei Haji Saari’s Mountain of Gold: A Cinematic Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly

Pooja Halyal and Chandrakant Langare

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“Look On – Make No Sound”: Nietzschean Rhetorics in Victory

Noelia Malla García

Contributors

John G. Peters, a University Distinguished Professor at the University of the North Texas, USA, is past President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America and current General Editor of Conradiana. His books include Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception (Cambridge 2013), The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad (2006), Conrad and Impressionism (Cambridge 2001), A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (2010), volume 2 of Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge 2012), and the Norton critical edition of Conrad’s The Secret Sharer and Other Stories (2015). His articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature, College Literature, Studies in the Novel, Studies in Short Fiction, and English Language Notes. He has also translated the Japanese Poet Takamura Kotaro’s book The Chieko Poems (Green Integer 2007).

Chandrakant Langare is an Associate Professor of English at Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He has published articles on Joseph Conrad’s novels, film studies, culture studies, and Dalit studies in edited books and journals. He has published book reviews in journals of national and international repute. He has coedited two Global Interdisciplinary Commemorative Books on Mahatma Gandhi, Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Perspectives and Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Appraisal (Rawat, 2021), with Prof. Terry Beitzel. He has edited book, Under the Lens: Films, Gender, and Culture with Tripti Karekatti (Crescent, 2023). He has presented papers on Dalit autobiographies and films of Shyam Benegal at PAMLA and NEMLA conferences held at Seattle University, Washington, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He has presented a paper on early modern Indian poets at the 42nd EMS Conference 2014 at the University of Reading, England. He has presented research papers on Joseph Conrad’s fiction at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; the University of Kent, England; and UMCS, Lublin, Poland. In 2023, he was invited by the Mahatma Gandhi Centre at James Madison University, USA as a visiting scholar.